[Oe List ...] An excellent article on Health Care costs

[Susan Fertig]

Thank you, Jack.  God bless you for this!  I remember sitting next to George
West on a bus in Japan during the Sustainable Development conference Wayne
and Shizuyo put together in 1994, not long after the Global Gathering in
Lonavala, and he asked me about what we were doing in Croatia and Bosnia.
And he was disappointed that there was no firm spiritual footing (no excuse
that these people were emerging from 50 years of communism and just dipping
their toes back into any kind of religious experimentation).  He said that
the methods just weren't enough.  It had to be grounded in the spirit. I
agreed with him, and shared that it was one of the things that I found most
frustrating -- the loss of overt spiritual foundation to all our work (I
craved our music, for example, almost as if I were addicted and had no
source). It was all still there, of course, just gone to ground, but I
yearned for the integration with our secular applications of the
methodology.
 
Susan
 

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of Jack Gilles
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:22 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] An excellent article on Health Care costs


Herman, 

This article is fantastic!  It's if for the first time the contradiction is
named (for me) and we can see what needs to really happen.  No longer am I
distraught over the loss of the "public option".   It is not addressing the
contradiction.  What it does clarify for me is something that I have
brooding about throughout all these emails zinging back and forth.  Why
aren't we remembering our own deep and profound insight that there will be
no New Social Vehicle without a New Religious Mode?  I find this article not
only says that, but points out what areas we need to work in to make it
happen.  And his words that as of now, that possibility is becoming less not
more prevalent is sobering.  I personally feel that this thinking and action
is what we need to focus on, not just our method for coming up with an
analysis and plan (ToPs Methods).  Anyway, thanks for bringing this to our
attention and I hope everyone will read it.

Grace & Peace,

Jack


On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Herman Greene wrote:



This article has been widely circulated in the health care debate


The Cost Conundrum


What a Texas town can teach us about health care.




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From: hfgreene at mindspring.com [mailto:hfgreene at mindspring.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:48 AM
To: hfgreene at mindspring.com
Subject: From newyorker.com

(hfgreene at mindspring.com) saw this on newyorker.com and thought you'd like
to see it.



Click here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande
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