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To: combjelly who wrote (613399)	5/27/2011 4:01:34 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577095

I will grant you that the electronic health records stuff was not the direct stimulus it should have been. Its main use is in trying to keep healthcare costs under control. Reducing record errors and, at least in principle, reducing the labor required to provide healthcare is a good thing. The VA is a great model of how much EHR can help reduce costs. The VA is uniquely structured in such a way that EMR ought to save money. Physicians offices are a totally different thing and I doubt seriously more than a few can show that EMR has saved them one nickel, even with the stimulus payment. But to the bigger point, the EMR isn't an isolated example of the waste in that trillion dollars. I can readily point to a half dozen highway projects in my driving area, NONE OF WHICH NEEDED TO BE DONE. For example, there is a stretch of US 167 in S. Ark being expanded in which there virtually no traffic and no anticipated increase. There is a 0.5 mile stretch of Ark. 128, a couple miles from where I live, that NOBODY thinks needed to be widened, and would NOT have been other than this forced gift from our children. Deficit spending for fiscal stimulus is, simply put, NEVER justifiable on moral grounds; it is spending the money of our grandchildren without their prior authorization. I just cannot imagine what sort of raionalization of bad behavior leads liberals to believe this is acceptable.