Favorite Quotes
"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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"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ====
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What issues should the Republicans stress in the health care summit
8 Feb2010
Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care
Morning Joe had a nice discussion of this plan. I agree with two of his three points.
My agenda (if anyone cares)
- True tort reform. I would not go after caps, but rather focus on health courts. Tort reform would attract several Republican votes. Can the Democrats vote for a bill that includes tort reform?
- Transparent insurance competition. We need national health insurance availability, rather than state specific health insurance. We need understandable options and competition. Insurance companies try to avoid transparency so that they can have huge profits. We should decrease state defined mandates.
I would avoid the importation of pharmaceuticals issue. We can treat so many conditions with generic drugs. I favor targeted comparative effectiveness research on generics versus newer more expensive drugs – this will save more money than importation.
I hope that the Summit does allow both sides to listen to each other and find the "sweet spot" in the middle. We should provide insurance for more Americans – hopefully all, but at least more.
Today I will endorse this plan with cautious optimism.
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