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Lobbyists score a swift and unexpected victory in President Obama's stimulus plan by channeling billions to electronic medical records.
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Per capita health care spending (2007):
United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581
-- Bob Somerby
The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.
* Medicare For All.
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Such an approach would rely on unprecedented data-mining into medical records and the practices of doctors, a kind of surveillance that also would enable insurers to cut costs by controlling more precisely the care that patients receive.
Yes, that's what I want -- look, the insureres controlling costs more precisely using a kind of surveillance.
Excellent. They'll find that two trillion in no time flat!
Reality Check
Electronic medical records (EMR) are needed and will enhance medical treatment outcome. The Europeans have it to a much greater extent*. EMR will not, repeat will not, lower the cost of medicine in the US. The only to achieve that is by eliminating the health insurance parasites.
It is a abysmal travesty that enrich some guys beyond belief we kill, mame and impoverish people.
*While visiting Southern Portugal I needed medical treatment. After the blood tests, we asked the doc for a copy of the result. The doc almost started crying; she said we don't use paper.
KoshemBos
Why was the doc almost crying? From laughter? or bcz she felt
they needed paper backup? Thnx for explanation.
Reminds me of going to a clinic in Canada
They were terribly, terribly apologetic I'd have to pay for a checkup.
"How much will it be?" I asked.
"$30," they answered.
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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Why even *I* am becoming skeptical of EMR
I don't trust Obama or his coalition of industry leaders. Nor do I take anything he says to be true.
As a trained scientist who has been immersed in academic research hospitals for almost 8 years I know the scientific benefits of EMR. But Obama's focus on EMR as a cost saving idea, and his closeness to insuarance industry leaders, suggests to me that he probably has a different set of priorities when it comes to EMR than I do. I'm rapidly becoming anti-EMR when it will be implemented by *this administration*.