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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (9639)9/19/2009 9:49:32 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
" Let’s imagine ourselves in the computer market in 1974. The market is dominated by IBM mainframes..."

And John Dingell IMO is almost single-handedly responsible for the sorry state of computing in the federal government for his efforts to increase competition. He put an extraordinary burden on government procurements, delayed systems development, and lost the needed skills in the bureaucracy to the point where systems work needed to be contracted out, which further compromised capacity long-term and created a downward spiral. We can still see the fallout.

And after all these years, it still bugs me... <g>



To: TimF who wrote (9639)9/19/2009 11:42:46 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
This article expresses what ought to be the biggest concern about "health care reform" -- the stifling of innovation. There is a reason that such a great proportion of the world's innovations in health care have happened in the United States.


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