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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (36297)	4/29/2014 9:47:49 PM
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.> Those that finally learn and do it for a year or so completely turn around in their opinions Not speaking for anyone else, but I am not computer illiterate. Without getting into another tedious debate on yet another subject, I'll just say one thing: If you have to have government subsidies to get businesses on board, it is NOT an efficiency measure. Because if a system improves efficiency it saves money, and if it saves money you don't need tax dollars and penalties to get businesses to use it. In the early 80s, when the first cheap laser printers were introduced, I spent the $8,000 to buy two of them for my tax practice because it was clear that they would enhance efficiency. And it did; we could put plain paper in one end and ready-to-file tax returns came out the other. Nobody subsidized it, no one had to penalize me for not using it, and and every CPA in the country was buying them within a year or two. Because it made sense. EHR will make sense one day, but trying to push it out before it was ready was clearly a terrible mistake. People will adjust, they'll get past it, but we will have wasted 100s of billions of dollars before that happens.