Where can I read more about your statement that "The provider is the cheapest component of the health care system.".
Stan On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Balu Raman <[email protected]> wrote: > AthenaHealth is hoping to be a big player here. AthenaHealth is owned by > (CEO), another Bush , a cousin of our notorious pres. George Bush. > The whole health care is going to hell, because : > * The healthcare in this country has so much crap accumulated over the > years, that digitizing the crap is not the solution. > The solution is to start from scratch with a single payer system and get > rid of all the paper work. Get rid of all the private health insurance > companies.The only documentation should be patient health history and none > of these multi-tier billing with all these insurances, referrals, drug > formularies etc etc. > The provider is the cheapest component of the health care system. > Obama is going to be a disappointment in this area. > Sorry , I have so many things to say, I can't get my thoughts organized :-) > - balu > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:04 PM, daniel connelly < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Jeez, Bradley, didn't you get the memo. >> >> There are no programmers left in America to be stimulated, or do the >> stimulating, whichever comes first. Here I speak particularly of a >> software project already endorsed by our Preez-to-be and, sad to say, >> project without significant FOSSing, to date: digitized health records, >> >> http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/12/technology/stimulus_health_care/index.htm >> >> Of course, the problem with electronic medical records standardization >> to this point has been that the government has deferred to the free >> market (being, of course, the antithesis of the free software.) >> >> -- Dan Connelly >> >> >> Bradley Holt wrote: >> > I'm sure you all are Slashdot readers, so you probably already saw this: >> > http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F0032223 >> > >> > What do you think of this idea? Could be an interesting idea at a >> > state level even if it doesn't go anywhere federally. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Bradley >> > >> > >> > >
