Re: Medicare Means Test

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gretchen Evans  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:41:46 -0700, "Founding Father" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:


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>>Compassion without brains is useless at best, and more likely results in the
>>opposite of the intended effect.

>Indifference to others indicates abject ignorance. As to your claimed
>'results' I didn't realize that you possessed supernatural powers and
>could see into the future.  Just continue with those thoughts, the
>nice men in the white cots will be along soon.

Intelligent action, in healthcare or otherwise, REQUIRES
prediction of the future.  Federally sponsored housing
projects, designed by the social workers and the like to
reduce crime, have become notorious crime breeding sites.
That the social workers considered that type of housing
to be good was not grounds for assuming that the ghetto
dwellers would agree.

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