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

To: skinowski who wrote (8151)	8/11/2009 3:56:52 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I think that perhaps crediting patients with a fraction of their unspent funding could encourage questions about the true necessity of tests being offered. Not sure how that works but sounds like a good idea.

To: skinowski who wrote (8151)	8/11/2009 7:34:37 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

>>> Habits change very slowly. They surely do. Physicians are no different from anyone else in this respect, I think. I was in an office today, training personnel on a new computer system. This office has had billing software for a long time, but amazingly still keeps an old-fashioned ledger card in a bucket for each patient. I said, "Why are you doing this? Why do you have the buckets of ledger cards all over the office and three people whose job it is to write on them?" Blank stares is all I got. I said, "This crap has to go, or it defeats the purpose of having computers." They totally didn't get it. The doctor's wife -- an accountant -- says, "You mean you actually think we're going to be able to not use these?" Bizarre. But some it is really hard for people to come to grips with this kind of change. Office procedures, IN TRIPLICATE, are there for a reason, but nobody knows why the hell that is.