Health care as a human right originated in the Authoritarian government of Fredrick the Great of Germany in the 19th century. Even he recognized the need to protect and assist people in need. And thus the age of needs begins as a necessary outcome of the mass society and industrialization that produced it. While Social Security was introduced in the US in the 1930s it was viciously attacked even at its inception by the oligarchs of that age. It is still under attack today from those who hew to a particular line in the American spectrum. Caring for the least among us is not an American virtue.

John Cosi writes that America is leading from behind in providing the basics of health care among the industrial nations.

Asking the question, cui bono?, Corsi notes that we cannot see how ordinary people benefit from US policy anywhere in the world, but those who suffer are painfully obvious.

These problems do not evolve out of human evil and intent, but are the products of systems of thought and action built on a failed rationality. When applied to the world of representations, narratives and stories, this rationality reduces human existence  to the level of an algorithm.

The works of John Ralston Saul provides a further framework for the restoration of human dignity and a freeing of humanity from the systems: common sense, imagination, creativity, ethics (not morality), intuition, memory and reason.