Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Not an ideal way to do it. A more productive thing to do that calls all the way back to the Civilian Conservation Corps in the FDR New Deal era is we want to look for shovel-ready projects. What are things that we just all agree on are good ideas for the country that should happen? And let’s just pass some legislation that rewards the crap out of people with free money for doing the things that we think are a good idea anyway. The hope is you get this double whammy. You get the money distributed, which is just a goal. You’re just trying to create jobs, trying to create economic motion, and you get something accomplished that is widely agreed upon to be a good idea. Oh my gosh. A shovel-ready project right here, electronic medical records. Let’s do it. Let’s just figure out how to finally make that a thing. (1) fiscal stimulus to stimulate the economy after the great recession, (2) promote the adoption of electronic health records, (3) promote the use, which is different, the actual use……

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