Chris Richardson

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Rape, incest, mother's decision. I have known friends who aborted before they were able to successfully raise their children and had children later and did not regret the decision. I find it odd that the religious right fights to protect the unborn, but after the child is born they seem to lose interest in how the child is raised even when the rest of the children in the home that the parents and the other children are already stressed.

Well, stop bombing them to start. This is creating more terrorists all the time. We are the greatest threats to democracy and freedom in the world currently. We have spent most of the last hundred years over turning foreign governments. We have gotten to the point of sabotaging our own citizens. See www.ae911truth.org, the physics is correct and the official 911 report is a fantasy. We did 911 to ourselves.

This is an interesting and highly philosophic question. The founding fathers were confronted with the various forms of government of the time. The Magna Carte was a means of limiting the power of a monarch so that the government was more representative. They extended many aspects of the Magna Carta to make our current democracy.

I believe in science and reasonableness to solve issues as they occur. I respect the beliefs of most peaceful religions. I have friends in many belief systems and revel in their different methods of finding peace and respect for each other. I have been to Jordan, to Malaysia, to Japan and have worked with all of them successfully. I have belonged to the Unitarian Universalist Church in San Diego and Walnut Creek. I believe that if there is going to be fairness in the world, it needs to start with ourselves first. Character is what you do when you believe no one is watching.

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I was one of the founders of WorldVistA, a not-for-profit that is taking the VA's integrated hospital system and putting it out into Open Source. The whole software system is Open Source and the adopter gets source code that they can modify or configure as they need. This is the same system that the current administration is dumping to turn over the VA hospitals to Cerner. The VistA model is owned by the US citizens and has been running the VA hospitals for 40 years successfully and is rated as one of the best electronic health care systems available at any cost, and will run on a laptop. It is like we are paying someone to remove all of the gold in Fort Knox and dump it in the ocean and replace it with silver that we rent. Our not-for-profit is trying to save this technology from a bad decision by government that will cost us $10 billion dollars to start.

Easily done. 1) Single Payer eliminates the need for Health Insurance Companies that add nothing to health care, but add cost, delay, and decreased outcomes. 2) industry and small businesses will profit from the loss of having to negotiate with Health Insurance Companies. 3) The Affordable Care Act was an interesting experiment, but one of the side effects is that people with preexisting conditions are now exposed. With Single Payer, preexisting conditions mean nothing. Everyone gets help. Illnesses are discovered earlier and are solved when heroic measures are not needed (and it is cheaper to heal). 4) Prevention becomes the norm and that is very cheap. 5) single payer is good for the workers as well. The day worker, the factory worker, the consultant all have health care regardless of being employed or not, see www.fixithealthcare.org for more details. 6) Medical community needs to focus on preventative and curative medicine and not symptom management.

1) Single Payer is one. With Health Insurance gone, a parasite is removed that adds nothing to health care and serves as a gate keeper on who gets health services and who does not. They have also raised the prices on health care so that unless you are rich or can afford insurance, you do not get health care. The copays cause the sick to delay treatment until only heroic efforts are required (like emergency rooms). 2) Eliminate education loan debt and provide free college level education. The students and young workers will plow what extra income into the economy at the local levels. This will be a big boost to the services economy we have evolved into. Unfortunately the stock market is held up as being the measure of the economy. This is a faulty measure and does not really reflect the ability of the people to support themselves. The individual must make decisions such as will I pay for my medication or buy food this month or will I be able to pay rent.

We need to move more to the Warren Buffett Rule where the wealthy need to pay their fair share for a change. We also need to stop finding new enemies and fighting new wars. We need to stop being the aggressors and stop our false flag actions to start new wars. If we can find trillions of dollars to start another war, we can pay for universal health and education. At one time we had not taxes and ran the government with the sale of public lands. That day has past, but a new day is dawning that can mean the opening of a new frontier and make space pay. Once we get to the moon with the rest of the UN, we can move mining up there with the readily available energy up there, new products and new manufacturing can be built up there and the lunar base becomes self sufficient (which can be sooner than later) and start exporting back to earth in the form of reentry vehicles built on the moon for a one way trip.

Well, with the amount of maintenance that our infrastructure needs, there should be meaningful jobs available to all who want them. We have much to fix and repair. As we settle the moon, there will be plenty of work to build the new devices and smelting equipment that will build the exploration devices and the reentry vehicles that will return resources from the moon to earth (landing on an square quarter kilometer on earth).

As I have pointed out before, settling the moon will provide a steady stream of innovation and resources that will increase the financial benefit to the whole world, thus raising all boats and easing the differences between us all. Ultimately there is no us and them, there is only us. We need to be able to work together and to share the expense and the success of all of us. No more should a small number of the population own a huge percent of the wealth of nations. People get the governments that they will tolerate. This reduces the stress we all experience. The measure of a government is how it treats its elderly and its helpless.

When I was in school and growing up, I took the assigned classes, but this was in Biology. There was no role model for the work I gravitated into. Those jobs did not exist before my age group got started. I did directed independent studies which means that I had to scope out the problem and work out the issues as they came up. I started in Biology, but ended up in information technology, I found problems and learned how to solve them with research and building models for the solutions. I taught at the Johnson Space Center a number of Real Time FORTRAN to Singer-Link and NASA personnel. I taught the MUMPS programming language to CSC and Navy Personnel. I also taught a class in reverse engineering while at Chine Lake. I was a member of the ANSI Standards Committee for 20 years. One of the issues with VistA is that multiple languages need to use VistA for their populations. I worked out how to host multiple languages on the same configuration.

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Much of the problem between the VA and Department of Defense is a matter of politics and not technical. I had defined a means of sharing DoD Data with the VA and vice versa, with what I called the Holographic Electronic Health Record, a means of balling everything we know about a patient and sending it on to a new site so that patient can be instantiated at the new site back in 1987 when we won the contract, but I was told to sit down and shut up. I want to see about this and some other projects need to be expanded, The magic of the VistA model is that is a tool kit and was designed to be modified to fit the evolution of hospital needs. One of the increased development is the golden pair, a programmer and a subject matter expert who knows his specialty. The pair can hammer out a new application in a matter of hours to days while a commercial 3rd party takes 18 to 24 months to develop a solution to a two year old problem. The staff is handed a solution they had no input to.