The Health Care Industry
“History is an angel – being blown backwards into the future – and they call her “Progress.”
~ Laurie Anderson, “Strange Angels,” 1992
They call it the Health Care “Industry” because that’s what it is. A monolith of impenetrable steel whose walls will sustain not even a dent when cries for mercy fall against them. It is a machine within a machine within a machine within a machine within a machine within a machine….
It has no heart, no conscience, no spirit. It is a machine within a machine within a machine within a machine….Powered by greed and fueled by funds gleaned from poverty, a robotic voice monotones to its workers, “First do no harm…. Compassion…First do no harm… Compassion…First do no harm…”
Safety gear for The Health Care Industry is mandatory – a special hard-hat which sucks the conscience from the human brain, and earplugs made of rolled up dollars to muffle the screams and the moans of the dying.
The serpent of the caduceus has been loosed, and with toxic venom, he slithers invisibly along the great hallways of learning, biting whom he may. He returns to the impenetrable steel monolith only for the purpose of bringing new converts to his religion of money and more money, and wealth on top of wealth.
They call it The Health Care Industry because that’s what it is. The impenetrable steel monolith is working twenty-four hours a day…grinding, churning, and processing, its gargantuan stacks bellowing thick, black, toxic smoke that is a stench in the Nostrils of God. They call it The Health Care Industry because that’s what it is.
“History is an angel – being blown backwards into the future – and they call her “Progress.”
~ Laurie Anderson, “Strange Angels,” 1992
They call it the Health Care “Industry” because that’s what it is. A monolith of impenetrable steel whose walls will sustain not even a dent when cries for mercy fall against them. It is a machine within a machine within a machine within a machine within a machine within a machine….
It has no heart, no conscience, no spirit. It is a machine within a machine within a machine within a machine….Powered by greed and fueled by funds gleaned from poverty, a robotic voice monotones to its workers, “First do no harm…. Compassion…First do no harm… Compassion…First do no harm…”
Safety gear for The Health Care Industry is mandatory – a special hard-hat which sucks the conscience from the human brain, and earplugs made of rolled up dollars to muffle the screams and the moans of the dying.
The serpent of the caduceus has been loosed, and with toxic venom, he slithers invisibly along the great hallways of learning, biting whom he may. He returns to the impenetrable steel monolith only for the purpose of bringing new converts to his religion of money and more money, and wealth on top of wealth.
They call it The Health Care Industry because that’s what it is. The impenetrable steel monolith is working twenty-four hours a day…grinding, churning, and processing, its gargantuan stacks bellowing thick, black, toxic smoke that is a stench in the Nostrils of God. They call it The Health Care Industry because that’s what it is.
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