[Travis McGee]

EMRs will be interfaced with the Rat political machine.

“Sorry Mr. Conservative, but we are all out of funding for knee replacements this year. And your daughter’s surgery? Not on the approved list. Sorry. Try again next decade. NEXT!”

[lentulusgracchus]

EMRs will be interfaced with the Rat political machine.

That's how they do it in China.

Visitors there notice two things about Chinese health facilities.

• Crowded waiting rooms.
  
• A constant stream of Party people going right to the back of the facility, to see the doctor with or without appointment, right away, jumping the line on the stiffs in the waiting room.

Yeah, we should do it like those Workers' Paradises ^(R). Then we'll be all advanced and stuff. You know -- civilized.