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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (4670)2/21/2008 2:02:59 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
My friend I have been around computers since being a small child. Every time they computerize something they say it will save money. Rarely has computerizing every saved a company or industry money.

Instead what happens is better quality of information and increased reliability. In the long run businesses learn to benefit from it, but in the short term it does not tend to save them any money.

My father built a building in the early 1960’s. The office had a clerical pool of seven clerks and two clerical supervisors. After it was fully computerized there were two full time clerical staff remaining. Production jobs became more clerical and an IT position was created. Spending on computers supported jobs outside the business as well and total spending on IT plus higher pay for higher skilled staff and new staff cost more than the savings.

Eventually the improved information enabled him to operate more profitably and to identify problems much more quickly.

"If you had one set of codes and an integrated system, you wouldn't need the staffing you do now."

They have one set of codes.

"Processing medical billing and sharing files should be nearly as easy. You need to establish, though, the equivalent of UPS, Paypal, Visa, etc, to smooth things out."

Hippa makes things much more difficult. Again we are back to government regulation causing problems and people proposing more government regulations to "fix" the problems. Like computers "saving" money, there may yet be a first time for government bureaucracy making things better. (I know, health inspectors, etc. are a boon.)
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