The citizenry insist and insist and insist that they are proud of the Medicare system and that they want it to work. They continually send instructions to this effect to their governments. They do so in every imaginable way. And yet, day by day, the governments and the bureaucracies chip away at the system as if in the hope that, by opening holes in it and creating a new ineffectiveness, the citizenry will drop their commitment to it.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Citizens demand strong public systems like Medicare while bureaucracies slowly undermine them hoping people will quit caring.
- In plain terms
- People support public health but officials weaken it bit by bit to reduce public support.
- What can you take from it?
- Public trust erodes when institutions neglect what people value.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do governments test public commitment to services?
- Why do bureaucracies weaken what citizens value?
Another view
Some inefficiencies are due to resource limits rather than intentional erosion.
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