"SOME PEOPLE" Releases Short Film Examining Historic Levels of White Collar Healthcare Crime by United States Healthcare Industry
by Kimberly J. Soenen | July 22, 2024
(Drone still from “Systemness.” Video by Anonymous.)
“SOME PEOPLE” (Every)Body Not-For-Profit organization and collective today released a short film illuminating the current record-breaking levels of historic white collar healthcare crime and Board Room Violence occurring across United States healthcare industries.
"Systemness" is the state, quality, or condition of a complex system, that is, of a set of interconnected elements that behave as, or appear to be, a whole, exhibiting behavior distinct from the behavior of the parts or individuals. The term is new and has been applied to large social phenomena and organizations, including healthcare, by advocates of higher degrees of system-like, coherent behavior for delivering “value” and "profits" to stakeholders, shareholders and senior management rather than to The Patient.
Analogous to soldiers in warfare, individuals working within Systemness impose harm architected by group constructs that they would never impose as individuals.
The healthcare-related usage of the term was first used as early as 1986 in a Dutch psychiatric research paper. The State University of New York's (SUNY) Chancellor, Nancy L. Zimpher, described Systemness as "the coordination of multiple components that, when working together, create a network of activity that is more powerful than any action of individual parts on their own.”
Since the 1980’s, and the dawn of the Managed Care, these powerful private corproate health system, pharmaceutical, biotech and commercial health insurance networks in the United States have increasingly neglected The Patient as priority.
Read the full “Systemness” poem by Moe Lowe.
Moe Lowe is a recent graduate of DePaul University and a Chicago based writer, editor and poet. Her first book of poems, “It’s Been Evening All Day Long” was released in 2020. You can purchase it via Instagram @moe_lowe_
Film Credits:
Written by Moe Lowe
Edited by Kimberly J. Soenen
Narration and Sound Design by Satya
Drone Photography and Video by Anonymous
Directed and Produced by Kimberly J. Soenen
Learn more about "SOME PEOPLE" (Every)Body at SomePeopleEveryBody.com
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