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“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
—-President John F. Kennedy
Imagine if President Kennedy in his famous speech didn’t stop at this point.
Instead, he started describing the rocket.
Assume he demanded a rocket with only two, or maybe four stages; that he insisted on a specific type of fuel, or certain weight and speed.
Would the American space program have succeeded? I doubt it, and you should too.
The Obama administration’s plan to spend $19.2 billion on electronic medical records as the sole path to achieve health care automation is the equivalent of Kennedy dictating to NASA the specifications of the rocket carrying Neil Armstrong to the moon.
Health care automation is the new national project for good reasons.
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