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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6210)3/2/2009 4:56:03 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Respond to of 42652
 
<<<They did their work in house and they hired geniuses. Sure, if they handled it like the Manhattan Project they could do it,>>>

There is your answer. It can be done. All you have to is appoint a czar, hire a bunch of geniuses, and put them away in New Mexico for couple of years. Voila, you cut health care costs by several hundred billion dollars a year.



To: Lane3 who wrote (6210)3/2/2009 5:17:12 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
Actually, the VA has made its EMR system open source and free to anyone who wants it.

The problem is it is useless in any environment except the VA.

And the fact that it was developed in a language no developer in his right mind would use.


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