Steven,
I'm quite certain the E-Prescribing Lobby is pushing the Congresspeople and Senator's VERY hard to make E-rxing the standard. Think how many BILLIONS of dollars they stand to make, at no effort to themselves, at the complete effort of YOU AND I, by charging pharmacies (and soon to follow US) 10-25 cents per script. At least the pharmacy passes the cost to the patient, but do you think Medicare will allow us to pass the cost? NO WAY! Like everything else we do for free, they consider that "bundled" with the services of doctoring.
In my office, we easily reply to 25-100 faxed or called in requests for Rx refills per day. $2.50 to 10.00 per day sucking out of my office results in hundreds to a few thousand dollars per year.....gone. Not in my kids college fund but someone else's so they can drive a Porche.
These people have every interest in doing this under the guise of "Patient Safety" however, we know the real reason like every other reason this stuff happen. Money.
