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"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler
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" The best test of a person's character is how he or she treats those with less power." - Bob Sutton
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." - Talking Heads, Life During Wartime
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"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it." - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." - Thomas Sowell
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - HL Mencken
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"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
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"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." - Herbie Hancock
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"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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The senate 6
28 Jul2009
Health Policy Now Carved Out at a More Centrist Table
The fate of the health care overhaul largely rests on the shoulders of six senators who since June 17 have gathered — often twice a day, and for many hours at a stretch — in a conference room with burnt sienna walls, in the office of the Senate Finance Committee chairman, Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana.
President Obama and Congressional leaders agree that if a bipartisan deal can be forged on health care, it will emerge from this conference room, with a huge map of Montana on one wall and photos of Mike Mansfield, the Montanan who was the longest-serving Senate majority leader, on the other.
I look forward to reading the final compromises that this group of 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans develop. One issue that they seem to have already settled is no public plan, rather co-ops.
Already, the group of six has tossed aside the idea of a government-run insurance plan that would compete with private insurers, which the president supports but Republicans said was a deal-breaker.
Instead, they are proposing a network of private, nonprofit cooperatives.
These senators are trying to find the middle ground, yet meet the President’s criteria.
We need health care reform. As I said yesterday, we do need some health care reform. Many parts of the current bills are excellent. I hope this group improves on the good. Too many critics want a perfect bill. Congress never passes perfect bills.
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2 Responses to The senate 6
Web Media Daily – July 28, 2009
July 28th, 2009 at 7:24 am
[...] The senate 6… DB’s Medical Rants [...]
Loye Noah
July 28th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Concerning health care, I, too, agree we need a revised plan, but not this one, and not rammed down our throats in the middle of the night or, as has just been announced, by the end of the week if regrouping works.
Here’s the quote that comes to mind, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Let’s just hope the American people prevale against a government takeover. Look what they’ve done to the banking and auto industries, never mind real estate and banking.
Sincerely,
Loye Noah
Loye Noah