If you can follow this, worry

Submitted by bniolet on July 16, 2009 - 3:54pm.
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Here is Dome's nomination for government gobbly goop talk of the day.

This is from a news release from Gov. Beverly Perdue's office announcing that she had signed an executive order putting the Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission in charge of North Carolina Health IT recovery efforts.

Here, notes Rob Christensen, is one particularly impenetrable paragraph from the news release.

The ARRA contains authorization for nearly $19 billion in funding for health information technology infrastructure over six years. Designating HWTF as the state-designated entity meets North Carolina’s first requirement necessary to apply for grants from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Perdue’s action of designating the HWTF follows the receipt of the final report from NC Office of Recovery and Investment’s Health Information Technology Strategic Planning Task Force.

Correction: The post now includes the correct spelling of the word "impenetrable." Dome totally deserves that for mocking others. 

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Re: If you can follow this, worry

Submitted by cdtew on July 17, 2009 - 8:27am.

Wow, never thought my law school education would make me feel as ashamed as when I just read that paragraph and understood it clearly. I need a drink, and it's only 9:30.

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Re: If you can follow this, worry

Submitted by chicadechip on July 16, 2009 - 8:06pm.

I wrote the Gov and received a response from her staff about a month ago. They did the typical political response, you know the kind that only says they're full of sh**. I had to write them back to be sure that someone didn't hack into their system and use their e-mail to respond to me without them knowing. Undoubtedly they were too embarrassed to write me back. Now it seems they are trying to use big, fancy words to make it look like they actually know something.

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Re: If you can follow this, worry

Submitted by woodcox on July 16, 2009 - 6:05pm.

I wish I didn't know what that meant. Note to self: Get out more.

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Re: If you can follow this, worry

Submitted by dahedgehog on July 16, 2009 - 5:18pm.

Maybe I should worry. My translation:

The federal ARRA regulations are really confusing. So we had to start a taskforce over at the Office of Recovery and Investment to try and figure out how to get the money. This taskforce figured out that the first step in getting federal money is designating HWTF as the state-designated entity. So we did that.

Do I win (lose)?

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Re: If you can follow this, worry

Submitted by bnartist on July 16, 2009 - 4:15pm.

The "gobbledygook" is in an "impenetrable" paragraph.

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