Thanks, sounds like an interesting guy. I can see that people suffering from chronic conditions would suffer from profit-oriented healthcare when it comes to taking up bed space in hospitals. On the other hand it can be a gift to pharmaceutical companies if they can sell palliative products long term to a captive market.

'Care in the community is the only care there is' - agreed, like everything else healthcare has been professionalised and peoples' ability to address their own ailments has been undermined and/or completely taken away, leaving them entirely at the mercy of the expert class. Same goes for education: what sense does it make to pay strangers thousands of pounds to teach you something that you should have been taught for free growing up by elders who knew all the relevant knowledge from decades of firsthand experience? But everything in the dominant culture militates against that kind of human scale autonomy.

cheers,
I