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Todd Park Appointed Second U.S. CTO
redletterdave writes "On Friday, President Barack Obama appointed Todd Park, a 39-year-old former entrepreneur and data scientist, to be the new Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Park takes over for Aneesh Chopra, the first U.S. CTO, who resigned earlier this year. Park was formerly the CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since 2009, where he helped bring 'big data' to healthcare by helping create an open health care data platform similar to the National Weather Service, which could feed data to commercial websites and applications. Before joining the Obama administration, Park helped co-found AthenaHealth and Castlight Health, and also served as a senior adviser to Ashoka, a global incubator for social entrepreneurs. One of his ventures, Healthpoint Services, won the 2011 Sankalp Award for the 'most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India.'"
I define it as stealing..... taking money from somebody else. Whether you do it yourself or ask a Congressman to do it for you makes no difference. --- And if we are going to provide for the poor, then let's do that (welfare, food stamps, lowcost housing). Not a universal program that includes the well off. Wouldn't it be silly if I, an engineer, was being given free food stamps by the government?
Of course. It's ridiculous. Government programs should be a last-resort safety net for those who need the help. I should not be eligible for food stamps. Or free hospitalization. I should buy those things directly with my own cash.
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