[NPMUG] Broadband internet for all schools, libraries, hospitals .... and electronic medical records ..... part of the economic recovery

[Dave Sevick]

Dear Apple folks and everyone,

Technology infrastructure upgrades are going to be a major part of the  
economic recovery plan in 2009.   Here is a beginning glimpse of what  
direction we're headed .....  and I'm delighted.

Dave

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Full video of Saturday Morning Dec 6, 2008  Address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGpIT2bVZDw

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"Third, my economic recovery plan will launch the most sweeping effort  
to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever  
seen.  We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and  
put new computers in our classrooms. Because to help our children  
compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st  
century schools.

As we renew our schools and highways, we’ll also renew our information  
superhighway. It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in  
the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented  
the internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and  
they’ll get that chance when I’m President – because that’s how we’ll  
strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world.

In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the internet,  
we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected to each other  
through the internet. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m  
proposing will help modernize our health care system – and that won’t  
just save jobs, it will save lives. We will make sure that every  
doctor’s office and hospital in this country is using cutting edge  
technology and electronic medical records so that we can cut red tape,  
prevent medical mistakes, and help save billions of dollars each year."

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Full text of Saturday Morning Dec 6, 2008  Address:

http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/the_key_parts_of_the_jobs_plan/




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