No, it's not that millions will lose their insurance. No,
it's not even that your doctor or hospital might not be on your new plan.
Rather, it's the consequences—both intended and unintended—of the
breathtakingly stupid forced rush to electronic health records (EHRs), an
integral part of the Affordable Care Act.
EHRs have long been touted as some sort of magic bullet
that, all by themselves, would revolutionize health care. Imagine! You can
replace those outmoded paper records with modern digital ones. Records would be
available instantly, and could be shared as needed. Since doctors hate
charting, the automated features built into EHR systems would streamline that
miserable process, making it more reliable.
Backup systems would assure that records could not be
lost or misplaced, and for so many more reasons...patient care would be
drastically improved! In fact, one of the principal findings behind Obama's
promise that the average American's health insurance bill would drop by $2500
per year was that merely by having EHRs in place, there would be a savings to
the health care industry of $120 billion annually…..To Read More…
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