Comments on: Billions Wasted On Faulty Obamacare Digital Health Record Experiment

By: Slickster

Slickster — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:58:17 +0000

Who knew, obama wastes money?

By: clo1967

clo1967 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:27:36 +0000

My doctor had changed from paper records to electronic ones about 2 years before obamacare was even being debated in congress for passages of the bill. So I guess she was way ahead of being told she “had to switch” her record keeping practices. But as far as the obamacare take over of our health care system, I’m just waiting for the death panels to get up and running so I can go get my end of life counseling session with them. I don’t live well or take pain nicely..and won’t take it well when they tell me I’m not worth giving any medications or whatever is needed to stop or curve the chronic pain I have in my back and have had for the past 8 yrs and counting. So I am more than happy to go receive my discussion with the panel. But I do feel for all the other seniors and disabled that haven’t come to grips with the prospect of leaving this world for the next because it won’t be pretty for them under the obamacare law come 2014…for they won’t get any care or very little to say the least.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:03:31 +0000

This bill does not benefit providers in the way this article seems to imply, in fact the costs to maintain an EMR (electronic medical record) and all the new software and computer specific facets are not offset that much by the government. My understanding is that providers who don’t comply with the EMR mandates will be facing huge fines and run the risk of not being paid for their medicare, medicaid patients . The higher costs of this mandate to an EMR will raise costs but not from fraud perpetrated by doctors and hospitals but the requirements of all these mandates will raise costs (software systems to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars and people to maintain and fix them when they go wrong) that will have to be passed on to the consumer. Big city hospitals and clinics may be able to absorb these costs but rural healthcare is the true loser in this bill. Private practice physicians will be run out of business and people will have to travel farther for specialty doctors as their local ones will not be able to maintain this EMR in a private practice. Government has no business telling your doctor how to practice medicine anymore than I would not dare tell someone how to fly a plane (I have never flown so what do I know about that?)