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

To: dybdahl who wrote (18384)	7/19/2010 9:29:31 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If USA does the same, there will probably be more return to the taxpayers by creating jobs. However, it takes many years to create good health care IT systems. It is a different subject, but jobs created by virtue of a government mandate are almost always a losing proposition for taxpayers. These jobs end up costing millions per job and can't come close to recovering that money. There is one very positive benefit to the Obama EMR initiative, IMO. To qualify for financial kickback, the government dictates that provider organizations make "meaningful use" of their EMR system, and some of those requirements are substantial. As a result, the systems that are being installed today are fairly comprehensive. Without this requirement it might have required an additional generation of systems in physicians offices to get where you want to be. It is still a boondogle though. The Obama government has squandered a trillion dollars of our money on the so-called stimulus. It is no surprise that part of it ($20B) went to doctors offices.