Health Care – Using the “Schematic for Sustainability”

Today we begin a new series of posts using the Schematic for Sustainability and Schematic for Sustainability — Instructions. These two documents are available at my personal website  www.holisticsoul.com  then click on Sustainability. A full discussion for using the Schematic will take several posts to train you in the basics of the Schematic and Instructions.

A number of readers have contacted me saying that the Schematic and Instructions are so “out of the box” and unfamiliar to their thinking that they are not able to use them, even though they are very intrigued with the idea of actually designing socially sustainable social institutions.   So, let us begin with a current and highly visible public issue “public health care.”  Keep in mind that health care is not limited to only public health care, but private health care as well.  Sustainable health care is actually a continuum of health services.

First, an elemental question needs to be answered, “Do you have a vision for a sustainable society, nation(s), and civilization?”  A vision for a sustainable future is an essential personal investment to begin this process.

Here is the INTRODUCTION to the Instructions:  “INTRODUCTION — Working the Schematic is a straightforward process that produces exceptional results.  Team environments seem to produce results quickly.  Rules of order: Participants agree that they will qualify their arguments to support social sustainability; and use the Schematic as the framework for developing actions plans.   Developing designs of sustainability sets an ideal that will require progressive stages of designing, planning, and then fulfilling programs that lead to sustainability.”

The Schematic presents us with a series of questions that lead us into a sustainable future.  One of the primary elements of the Schematic is to ask questions that help us design a consistent set of public policies that lead to sustainable social systems.  As this has never been done before, I am sure most of you have more than a wee bit of skepticism!  So, let’s begin.

1.  Beginning at the top of the Schematic, answer the question, “Is the issue being designed for sustainability Social or Material?  Circle One.”   //  Circle “Social.”

2.  (Circle One:)  Global — Global Region — National — National Region — Community — Family — Individual.  //  Better refer to the instructions:  “All to the right of the selected area becomes included.”   // If you circle “Global” then you are designing a sustainable global health care system.  Obviously, our world is not at that stage of development so circle the area (National?) that you want to design a sustainable health care system.  Just for example, let’s circle “National.”  Because our form of government is a federal democratic republic, that means that the 50 states would come under this design.

3.  STATEMENT of INTENTION (briefly):   [Instructions:  Answering the question, 'What is our intention for developing action plans for sustainability for this topic/issue?' will help focus your efforts in using the Schematic. ...."]  And it will guide the detailed development of the fourth column, “Criteria for Fulfillment.”   //  Write out your intention.

Here is my example, your example may be different.  “The intention for designing a sustainable national health care system is to provide all citizens with options for health care.”  If this statement of intention seems awfully general, think of public health care as an option much as public educational services are an available option to the public.   In the case of public education, parents have a choice of private or public educational services from pre-school all the way through post graduate programs.

Before we move ahead to #4 Criteria for Fulfillment, let us discuss VALUES.  As you can see, the three primary values that are the foundation for a sustainable society and civilization are:  LIFE, EQUALITY, and GROWTH.  Without any one of these values, a society or a civilization will decline, collapse, and eventually disappear.   See my 4-part YouTube video presentation:  http://www.youtube.com/user/Gabriel071659#p/u/3/HxAqbSsUv5U for a discussion of the decline of civilizations.

Concerning VALUES, only processes of governance that incorporate these values into their founding, organization, and operation have a real chance to become sustainable.  The founding of the United States of America began with,”We hold these truths [values] to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with the certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  Two of the primary values of social sustainability are directly stated, (equality, life), while the value of  “growth” is alluded to in the phrase, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” that leads to an improving quality of life.

We are already at over 800 words, so before we close today’s post regarding public health care, consider that public education emanates from the value of “growth,” which is a fundamental value supporting sustainability society.  Then, would not the fundamental value of a sustainable society, LIFE, have the same foundation for the establishment of public health care?

In the next post, we will continue our discussion beginning with 4.  CRITERIA for FULFILLMENT.  //Daniel Raphael

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