Posted on 08/15/2016 11:29:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The federal government ranks dead last in a new Gallup poll measuring Americans’ views of U.S. business and industry sectors.
More than half of the public — 55 percent — said their view of the federal government was either “very negative” or “somewhat negative. Seventeen percent expressed a “neutral” view of the federal government, and only 28 percent viewed the federal government as “very positive” or ”somewhat positive.”
Of the five worst-rated U.S. business sectors, the federal government was last, just behind the pharmaceutical industry (51 percent total negative, 28 percent total positive) and the health care industry (54 percent total negative and 34 percent total positive). […]
Rounding out the bottom five are the legal profession and the oil and gas industry. …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
If they polled people in federal prison it would be even higher, I suspect.
And yet, there is no meaningful effort to privatize healthcare and offer more private choice. Once government takes over, that’s it. The Left stops talking about the issue no matter how bad it gets.
And what is the percentage of physicians in the 50 to 60 year old bracket that have ceased or drastically reduced seeing patients? My guess is a bunch of us. What other industry could thrive if the bulk of what should be it’s biggest earners just refuse to play?
Several of my doctor clients have dropped out of all managed care companies and are seeing all their patients at private pay rate, although most are willing to negotiate.
In those offices, their staff has been reduced to one or two support people, the amount of paper generated has dropped to almost nothing, they no longer have to spend money on software upgrades or new computers. Very few patients have been lost and several have new private pay patients who chose those docs because their records no longer are on the internet.
Doesn’t work for everyone but for them it seems like a viable option, at least for now.
I think the date that requires all records be on EMR has passed. Any doctor seeing patients on paper charts only at this point is breaking the law, I do believe. Not that I care outside of just another example of turning us all into criminals.
If true, there are going to be a whole lot of doctors in prison, at least in our part of Texas. Only one of my doctor clients keeps records in any electronic format. None of my four personal doctors, which I see on a private pay basis and each is for a different part of my body, keep my records anywhere but in a paper chart in the file cabinet.
I cannot see that this is enforceable in any way. Would suspect that hospitals are more prone to keeping records electronically so they can easily be shared.
My neighbor is a pediatrician with a rather substantial group of other doctors. She said they all went through training and tried to use EMR system for almost a year and then scrapped it and went back to the old way.
Can see where keeping records electronically could be a real benefit if there were never any requirements to append them to any insurance billing which will soon be a requirement by Medicare.
The federal government ranks dead last in a new Gallup poll measuring Americans’ views of U.S. business and industry sectors.
*********************
The federal government is not part of the U.S. business and industry sector.
It’s the parasite that feeds off of it.
I hope that 55% vote twice for Trump!
I am pretty sure the EMR mandate was in 2015. Penalties get worse through 2018. Part of Zerodon’tcare. Not that I am averse to violating that one at each opportunity. If Zero himself can.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.