Quotes about Bureaucracy from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "The expansion of the bureaucracy began in the 1930s owing to the New Deal and the World War II mobilization effort. ... In total, Congress created 182 agencies. . . . The greatest administrative growth took place during the Truman administration and the administrations of President Johnson and President Nixon. . . . [T]he 80th Congress (1947-48) . . . created twenty-one agencies .... President Johnson's Great Society Program also increased the size of the bureaucracy, with sixteen new agencies created by the 89th Congress (1965-66)."- Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) |
 "Other physicians place the blame on greedy insurance executives and the wasteful bureaucracy they have created with their multiple plans, each of which covers a different set of treatments and pays a different amount for the same treatment. We devote nearly a third of our health care spending to administrative costs—paper pushing, in effect. In 1999, that amounted to $1,000 per capita. Canada's single-payer system, by contrast, was a model of efficiency, spending only about 16 percent of its health care dollars on administrative overhead, which means our system wasted nearly $160 billion."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "I recognize that the medical bureaucracy needs labels. Occasionally a label will get my patients access to services they would not otherwise have, and specific diagnoses will get me paid. Some colleagues have even warned me that patients might sue me for not diagnosing them with AD. But as long as I explain my perspective, and share how I've come to my values and opinions, I believe that I am protected."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "As one wise and wizened patient told me, "Doc, taking on the bureaucracy is like teaching a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and it angers the pig." So, I decided to take on the "institution of medicine" in the tradition of Maximilien Robespierre, maybe Thomas Paine. I'm not a revolutionary and certainly not a politician. I'm a physician who wants to do right by his patients and teach others how to learn to do even better than I know to do. I have paid a great personal price ?but not what you might imagine."- Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) |
 "We don't fear the dismissal, or even the ridicule, of academics or shy away from the potential obstacles thrown up by the related politics or bureaucracy. Our focus is on helping people just like you find the most direct path to health and well-being in the most natural and supportive way.
Quantum health is natural health to its core. It is not that we dismiss conventional health care. We don't. Surgery has its place. In acute and emergency situations, allopathic medicine works."- Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "That Christmas, the British cartoonist Osbert Lancaster penned a memorable cartoon of a poor man gathering wood under a full moon with a variation on the carol "Good King Wenceslas," lampooning the bureaucracy responsible for coal rationing:
Brightly shone the moon that night, 'tho the frost was cruel. Extra brightly so's to spite the Minister of Fuel?
The 1950s were somewhat kinder, but the 1960s brought the coldest winters to Britain since the 1880s."- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "The Reagan administration painted the FDA as a bloated bureaucracy that was slowing down the approval of drugs and getting in the way of business.
There was some truth to that claim. At that time it could take up to two years to gain drug approval, two years too long if you were suffering from HIV-AIDS. Throughout the 1980s, AIDS activists and patients echoed the drug companies' sentiments, complaining that it was taking too long to bring disease-fighting drugs to market."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "Untainted by a too-close association with an often high-handed and insensitive bureaucracy, homeopathy was 'scientific' without being sanctioned. Both in relation to science and in relation to nationalism, homeopathy allowed middle-class Indians in particular to reverse the polarity of colonial medical stereotypes. They could be doctors rather than patients; active experimentalists rather than passive subjects; modernizers rather than traditionalists."- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "Any time you develop a concept that challenges the existing philosophical concepts of a major bureaucracy, that bureaucracy will become more polarized and take a conservative stance opposing the new idea. That is still going on to a significant degree in American medicine, and unfortunately the American medical model has become the model for the world. In Japan and China, there was a prevailing holistic perspective until the 1960s, when they started to try to model themselves after Western medicine. And sometimes new converts are more enthusiastic than the originals."- David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) |
| "The plague and cholera in particular offered opportunities for the Indian bureaucracy to leaven political and economic imperatives with a strong dose of medical justification and encouragement to assimilation, modernization, and westernization. Cholera and plague shared two important aspects: first, their epidemic spread threatened the economics of empire; second, their control seemed to demand major, expensive, and culturally disruptive social and sanitary interventions." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
| "President Johnson's Great Society Program also increased the size of the bureaucracy, with sixteen new agencies created by the 89th Congress (1965-66). A surprising amount of growth also occurred during the Nixon administration. Twelve agencies were created between 1969 and 1970, and fifteen between 1973 and 1974. Among the more prominent are the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Amtrak, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.38
Today there is no matter of any economic or political import that is not regulated by a federal agency or commission." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) |
| "It has a large public relations department, a logo some find striking, and an enormous bureaucracy. The sign proclaiming "by and for the people" was trashed long ago.
It became clear to me that there would be a major change in "health care" in the United States because the current system was ethically bankrupt and the current approach financially unsustainable. It became clear to me that the likeliest scenario was a period of chaos, followed by a period of experimentation out of which a Phoenix could rise." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) |
| "Members of Congress responsible for the broad delegations of legislative, executive, and judicial powers from the 1930s to the present are themselves frequent beneficiaries of indus-
try largesse and are participants in the same corruption that riddles the bureaucracy.
Our great nation is brought low by actions that sacrifice the lives, liberties, and property of the many to benefit the few in power." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) |
| "Translation: A full-time, phone-call-away service that not only offers a guiding hand for patients caught in the medical bureaucracy, but an advocate who will always be there in times of financial (health-related) need. As Riccardi says, a good doctor is necessary not only for prevention and cure, but also as a medical advocate to work the same wonders on a bottom line.
The for-profit American Medical Consumers, Inc., offers several types of memberships and services.
• Contact the American Medical Consumers at 818-957-3508, or visit their Web site at http://medconsumer." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) |
| "Any time you develop a concept that challenges the existing philosophical concepts of a major bureaucracy, that bureaucracy will become more polarized and take a conservative stance opposing the new idea. That is still going on to a significant degree in American medicine, and unfortunately the American medical model has become the model for the world. In Japan and China, there was a prevailing holistic perspective until the 1960s, when they started to try to model themselves after Western medicine. And sometimes new converts are more enthusiastic than the originals." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) |
| "They were also efficient administrators who imposed a firm bureaucracy on every aspect of Egyptian life.
Pharaoh Senusret III (1878-1841 B.C.) was a great warrior and a man of imposing height. (Manetho tells us he was "4 cubits 3 palms, 2 fingers breadth [over 2 meters] tall."") He used the power and prestige of his office, bolstered by bountiful floods, to break the power of the nomarchs and replace them with administrators under direct royal control. The Middle Kingdom reached the height of its prosperity under his successor Amenemhet III (1929-1895 B.C." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
| "Primary-care physicians play two critical roles in today's health care climate: Not only are they the first ones to turn to in case of health troubles, but they are also the gateway into the health-care maze—and its bureaucracy. Your primary physician's sign-off on medical services being performed abroad, particularly if you are in a managed-care plan, can determine whether that foreign bill will be reimbursed.
you have a chronic disease that demands special medication, such as insulin for diabetes, adventures to remote locations can seem a bit risky." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) |
 "As well as bureaucracy, primary education is often bedevilled by the fads and fashions of academic theory. For over a hundred years, academics have wrangled over the best way to teach reading: phonics (showing children that the sounds 'c', 'a', 't' go together to make cat) or fun (getting children hooked on reading so they want to suss out the phonics for themselves). Schools have been pulled back and forth, and for a prolonged period towards the end of the last century, phonics went completely out of fashion."- Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
 "We will not be defeated by idiots in bureaucracy.
We will be living in East Warren, farming and working at educating farmers and consumers on the importance of local, organic food. We will be supporting agriculture and family farms.
Where will you be, Leon?
THE EMPRESS HAS NO CLOTHES
Detwiler s world began to unravel on October 18, 2001, when it was announced that a four-year British study investigating whether sheep initially diagnosed with scrapie were actually masking BSE was found to be worthless."- Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) |
 "People are not all the same, not all meant to fit into the same uniform school, corporation, or other such bureaucracy. American society has attempted to have everyone fit into increasingly standardized environments, and I believe that this has contributed to increasing numbers of Americans feeling alienated, inadequate, and depressed. Whyte concludes: "The quest for normalcy ... is one of the great breeders of neuroses."- Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) "Healing rituals once required time and intimacy; now they require bureaucracy and money. Contrast the following two examples, the first from modern American consumer society and the second from Native American traditional culture. In the United States today, here is the typical procedure people follow when they are so unhappy that they seek help. They call their insurance company's mental health managed care and get the names of three doctors. They pick one name, make an appointment, and report back to a managed-care manager, who precertifies them." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.) |
 "At worst, it could end up requiring a huge, and potentially very intrusive, bureaucracy.
But on the upside, the DTQ proposal does get us to consider other unconventional approaches to fighting global warming—and if that's all it ever does, it will still make a real difference. j c
Carbon Offsets
¦¦¦¦ There's a limit to how much people can do to reduce the greenhouse gases they put into the air. Even the most ecoconscious people need to fly, to drive, or to do things (like buy groceries) that require other people to fly or drive."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "Things can slow down, initial diagnosis can be delayed or wrong, and bureaucracy can paralyze response.
Are We Ready for a Pandemic Super Flu?
It's not that we don't have a plan. It's that nature is unpredictable. We also tend to overestimate our ingenuity and underestimate nature's power. The triad of unpredictability, under-preparedness, and unexpected flu virulence makes for a pandemic more intense than our defenses.
If we fail to protect ourselves, it will not be because of lack of warning or lack of foresight."- J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) |
| "It was time for small farmers to stand up against a bureaucracy out of control. We had to do something. As Larry told the Boston Globe the day after the seizure, "This is the beginning of a new chapter of our life and of getting the truth out to the public. The USDA can destroy our sheep, but they can't destroy the truth."
On the Monday after the seizure, Dr. Bill Smith called. He was the only USDA employee to apologize sincerely for what happened. "I'm sorry," he had said at the end of a meeting we had at the Vermont Department of Agriculture. "I never thought it would come to this." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) |
 "The FDA/CVM and Pet Food Regulation
What entity in the government bureaucracy actually oversees and regulates pet food production in the United States? Basically, it is the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA/CVM) based in Washington, D.C. FDA regulations apply to food, drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, vaccines, blood products, and radiation-emitting products (cell phones, lasers, microwaves)—all products related to human use.
The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), a division of the FDA, deals with animals."- Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) |
| "The more teachers are preoccupied with tending to this bureaucracy, the less time and energy they have for teaching, and the less children's individual needs can be taken into account.
Another problem is politicians' need for quick results to impress the voters and statistical evidence of improvement. This has led schools into a tests-and-targets culture with a fierce focus on standards of achievement." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
| "American bureaucracy will slow relief efforts, and politicians, unfamiliar with public health crisis, will be powerless. Centralization of resources will prevent rapid distribution of food and medicines. Natural disasters have been low on federal priorities. Hurricane Katrina showed us that nature is more powerful than terrorists and more unpredictable, even if we know the trajectory.
A tear in the fabric of society is upon us. With the breakdown brought about by a super flu, borders would be closed and international flights suspended." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) |
| "This is what happens when you have a monstrous bureaucracy with more than eighty thousand employees. One hand doesn't know what the other is doing." The USDA gave us authorization to import the sheep from the Netherlands and quarantine them in Belgium. Every single sheep came from a flock enrolled in the scrapie surveillance program. Worse still, it was not a requirement of the importation for the sheep to even be in a scrapie-monitoring program. Detwiler had wasted taxpayer's money.
The list of injustices continued." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) |
 "And what about corruption and bureaucracy? If farmers are getting only 63 percent of the sales price instead of the legally mandated 80 percent, do we have to pay higher prices to ensure that the farmer gets enough money to feed his family? Does social justice require us to basically pay ransom for these farmers who are being held hostage by their own government and administrators? These are issues that most Fair Traders don't ever have to consider; just pay the licensing fee, slap the label on your bag, and you've done your part."- Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "Shake up the bureaucracy? More transparency in the money transactions?" Yasuo took a deep drag from his cigarette and shook his head. He released the smoke slowly, so that it curled up past his face. He spoke through the smoke. "My major recommendation will be to dismantle the cooperative system, get rid of KPCU, and let the farmers sell to whoever they want on the open market." "You can't be serious?" I nearly shouted. "There may be problems with the system, but the co-ops are what protect all the small farmers from the sharks out in the market." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) |
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