“We may have to start lopping off services that are not economically rewarding,” said Doug Patten, Phoebe [Putney Health System's] chief medical officer, [the nonprofit group that runs six hospitals in southwestern Georgia.] “We probably have been overly permissive in the past in saying, ‘Yes, we will take care of you.’ ”Trying to take care of people was the health system's first mistake. Everybody knows people are too damned expensive.
"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Talk to me about the truth of religion, and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolation of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."--C.S. Lewis
Monday, February 03, 2014
Atlanta ain't the biggest problem Georgia has
Wapo, via Charlie Pierce:
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Well, the establishment, especially in the media, have been saying that The People are a luxury the country could no longer afford for most of the past forty years.
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