I agree with pretty much everything you said. As a society we really don't act like adults. We are conditioned to ignore and steer away from people who are unpleasant. It's not that we don't know they need help. Everybody knows and I even hear them say it on a regular basis. Something is wrong with that guy! Or that person needs serious help! But it not our business, right?

The two kids who were wearing the Nazi armbands at school were obviously messed up. Anyone who says that's a normal teenage thing to do is mentally retarded. Kids who threaten suicide on a regular basis, also, are obviously in need of help. These are the signs that our society very often does not take seriously. Nothing bold about my character judgments in this regard. It's just common sense.

Yes our health care system is messed up. We have our incentives backwards. A doctor makes more money off of sick patients than they do from healthy ones. A doctor should have incentive to keep people off of medication rather than on it. I'm guessing a huge percentage of people go into the doctors office with common colds and common flu. It strikes me as a colossal waste of time and money. We should all know how to treat cold and flu without making a trip to the doctor. On top of that people go to work sick on a regular basis and infect everybody else...and the employers are perfectly okay with this.

But anyway....we've got a long way to go, obviously. As far as I know we have eternity.