It’s another ridiculous bubble building government program. There are more companies selling EHR applications now than there has ever been for any other application in the history of man, 400+ or so. Can you imagine 400 different web browsers, word processors, etc?
It’s a $20 billion spend in a healthcare system that costs are already out of control. Why? To gain control of the citizens health data and give government power over doctors and their patients. Meanwhile, CMS doesn’t have enough money to pay docs for care.
BTW, the Feds are also spending great deals of money on incentivizing “electronic prescriptions” and “quality reporting” at the same time they are dropping reimbursement for actual medical care. So, hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted and new government entities are empowered at the same time the government is broke and doesn’t have enough money to pay docs for medical care.
This fails the common sense test as does most government ideas. Anybody that thinks this is a good idea is either in the business, or not a conservative.
These are all good points.
This is just another intrusion into our privacy and chunk of lost freedom that has been eased in over the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama surrender or our sovereignty to their cronies (global bureaucrats, global corporations, global finance), and transfer of our wealth to the same.
Once again Obama is the icing on the cake. To focus solely on him is to miss the process that got us here.
