Marta
Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote:
>
> I despise the "informed consumer" model. we're asked to research tax policy,
> medicine, land use laws, banking regs, phone companies, ad infinitum, before
> making a "consumer choice". gag me. there aren't enough hours in the day to
> be well informed about everything that might benefit us, and in a lot of
> cases people don't have the background knowledge to even know where to start
> on the research, though in some sense, the information might be "available".
>
> isn't this what it boils down to? if you (or your family) has the money,
> there will be a choice of some kind - and you can pay experts to inform you
> as fully as possible as to your choices and their possible ramifications.
> but if you don't have the money, you do the research to the best of your
> ability and takes your chances. and if you are without capacity to do the
> research yourself, and have no family or friends to help you/advocate for
> you, you're pretty much screwed a lot of the time, from what I've seen in the
> medical line. Dependent on the "kindness of strangers," and you know what
> happened to blanche dubois.
>
> les
-- Marta Russell author, Los Angeles, CA http://disweb.org/ Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/russell_ramps.html