On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:35:27 -0800, Hawke
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No changes, status quo protected once again.
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This can be good or bad depending where you are going.

If things are going well and/or improving then the status quo is
good. Unfortunately, the trend lines for both health care and
financial/fiscal well being, using several metrics, are in
serious decline.

The folk wisdom "desperate situations demand desperate remedies"
appears to be largely correct, but some parsing (and a little
deconstruction) indicates this is more of a warning to not allow
desperate situations to develop than a justification/rationale
for desperate remedies. The cure should not be worse than the
disease, and the "prime directive" for the physician should
remain "First, I will do no harm."


Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).