ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on family, private insurance and government as sources of individual security and argues that each of these is weaker as a source of security than is often understood. It also argues that the linkages between these are strong, and that each source of support has built into it a view of the other sources. The book provides different forms of individual investment with a description focused on risks. Medical decisions, financial decisions and personal decisions are all made in an environment of information, and often, information overload. As individuals ground security and their own futures in a realistic assessment of the institutions that are supposed to provide it, they may acquire a skeptical stance towards the claims of advocates and advertisers of all claims and ideologies.
