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Obama's Electronic Medical Records Scam

cmon_man Wrote: Dec 16, 2012 11:42 AM

What Michelle describes are medical devices. They have had not any assessment for safety, efficacy, and usability, as other medical devices (such as an artificial joint) have had. The best you can do is report the bad care, mistakes, adverse events, and deaths in the wired hospitals to the FDA MedWatch, and hire a med mal attorney well schooled in how digitized medical care and orders kill unsuspecting patients.

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Obama's Electronic Medical Records Scam

Here's more evidence that government "cures" are inevitably worse than the "diseases" they seek to wipe out. Buried in the trillion-dollar stimulus law of 2009 was an electronic medical records "incentive" program. Like most of President Obama's health care rules, this top-down electronic record-sharing scheme is a big fat bust.

Oversight is lax. Cronyism is rife. The job-killing and privacy-undermining consequences have only just begun.

The program was originally sold as a cost-saving measure. In theory, modernizing record-collection is a good idea, and many private health care providers have already made the change. But as with many government "incentive" programs,...

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