HRC: Electronic medical records save 80 BILLION a year = 80 % of the cost of universal health care

[agdlp]

I saw in one of the Bill Clinton speaches the arguments of how HRC will pay for the universal health care

http://mfile.akamai.com/12930/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2008/0131/15182140.200k.asx

Watch from 09:12 in the video


1. Take away the tax credits given to the richest 1 % and oil/med companies

2. Electronic medical record with privacy mecanism will save 80 BILLION A YEAR...thats 80 % of the
cost of universal health care

[Deja Q]

1. Then add in HIPAA and no centralized standard on healthcare and it becomes 80% more inefficient...

:hide:

[Liberty Belle]

2. I don't want every doctor to get full electronic records.

I was really pissed off the other day. We got new insurance and I had to go back to a medical group I left years ago because one of their doctors committed malpractice on me during surgery. I'd dropped my lawsuit against the quack because I ran out of money to pay the lawyers.

So the whole tale shows up in my records when I went in to see a new doctor there! And of course the quack's notes are biased to paint me as a troublemaker, etc. Why should any new doctor of mine be able to access something like that without my express permission?

Think about this, folks. What if you go to see a marriage counselor, or get drug treatment, or get treated for an STD? Do you really want every future doctor you see to know all those details? What if you're in a small town, and your new doc is best friends with your spouse or your boss?

I don't believe a doctor should be entitled to see any of your past medical records without your express permission--and then only those records that you authorize to be disclosed! moreover, after a certain number of years, those records ought to be sealed.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. If we spend that savings, how will the insurance industry make money?

We gotta keep their investors happy, you know. Happy insurance company investors mean rich insurance company executives; that, in turn, means Democrats getting elected to federal office. :eyes:

[sandnsea]

4. Kerry introduced that 5 years ago.

They ALL support electronic medical records. Good grief.

[rinsd]

5. To be fair, Obama also includes record modernization

[Mojambo]

6. You can cut costs all you want, as long as there's some schlub CEO at the top making a profit

health care ain't gonna work.

For profit health care BLOWS.

[teleharmonium]

7. savings ? ha

I work in the field. Long term, sure, there's savings (and associated job losses). But the investment needed to get there is very significant and has a relationship to the current healthcare costs. Don't go thinking there's some kind of free ride here just by switching over - on the contrary you can count on a ten year amortized bump up.