Re: Re: Please drop the health forwards (was Re: [BayCHIDiscussions] FYI - HHS is doing a PARTICIPATORY web conf right now reHealth IT)

there does seem to be an element of insanity in this thread

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Greg Austin <[email protected]>wrote:

> The entire issue is pure insanity--certainly not science.
>
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 7:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>  I agree with greg, at least for this point...
>>
>> No one should be posting a message to this discussion list if they refuse
>> to discuss it. Its a discussion list, not a spam list. I'm offended that
>> people are posting messages here saying, I'm just the messenger. Well, if
>> you aren't willing to discuss your topic, you shouldn't post it.
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>> Carrie
>>
>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg Austin <[email protected]>
>> Sender: [email protected]
>> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:07:43
>> To: Justin Maxwell<[email protected]>; Discussion Board at BayChi<
>> [email protected]>
>> Subject: [BayCHI Discussions] Re: Please drop the health forwards (was Re:
>> [BayCHI
>> Discussions] FYI - HHS is doing a PARTICIPATORY web conf right now re
>> Health IT)
>>
>> So please correct me if I'm wrong: The political entity--The United
>> States Health and Human Services Department--that which is the
>> enforcement embodiment of The McCarran-Fergusen Antitrust Exemption of
>> 1945 (legislation that monopolizes the entirety of healthcare funding
>> for every man, woman, and child within the United States), as well as
>> that which mandates Medicare's ICD9 Fees for Services codes that
>> effectively promotes illness by directly funding it...
>>
>> ... is recruiting assistance from the science community ...
>>
>> ... so it continues to contact Bay Area Computer Human Interaction--a
>> science-based, non-political group--that maintains interest in
>> usability science.
>>
>> BayCHI members are persistently offered "an opportunity" to further
>> facilitate this extortion plot, a plot that has been forwarded by the
>> very authoritarians that gain from its proliferation...
>>
>> ... because "science is selfless and altruistic."
>>
>> Usability scientists are expected to cast their pearls before the same
>> political authorities that obfuscate for political gain free market
>> competition and responsible information exchange that would otherwise
>> be held to tort.
>>
>> As the result of this top-down fail, the correct response from BayCHI
>> members is to attack fellow individuals, since speaking out against
>> the sordid monopolists who offer no real financial gain anyhow
>> wouldn't offer a financial gain to the BayCHI members who gladly
>> submit their free discoveries.
>>
>> Now do I have it right?
>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Justin Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>  Your deduction is incorrect, your points were not even read.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Greg Austin <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Only following suit, Justin.
>>>>
>>>> Clearly my points have struck a nerve--because the one who has
>>>> initiated this tread was NOT addressed in the same fashion.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe the initiator of the thread in question may be interested in
>>>> your suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> I, however, will mind my OWN email--thank you very much. Further, I
>>>> will continue to counter any disinformation I receive--and will
>>>> continue to counter-educate any persons on my list who has been
>>>> subjected to the same blatant misinformation that I have received--
>>>> under the guise of "just a messenger for The Firm".
>>>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Justin Maxwell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Greg, could you please refrain from forwarding this ongoing strife
>>>>> with health issues to the BayCHI list?  The small segment of users
>>>>> on this list who find the topic of concern can follow it
>>>>> themselves.  This is more about your own interests than anything
>>>>> related to CHI, the field or the organization.  Perhaps you can
>>>>> set up your own listserv for these things and invite interested
>>>>> BayCHI members.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Justin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Greg Austin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  From: Greg Austin <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Date: January 10, 2011 10:36:53 AM PST
>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [BayCHI Discussions] FYI - HHS is doing a
>>>>>>> PARTICIPATORY
>>>>>>> web conf right now re Health IT
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If I don't want a discussion about things--I don't initiate
>>>>>>> discussion.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> justin maxwell
>>>>>
>>>>> personal: [email protected]
>>>>> work: [email protected]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Greg Austin
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>> Greg Austin
>> [email protected]
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