Al,
You are certainly correct about the CCHIT EMR component of the original that Bush and his henchmen wanted and we are certainly glad that such was dropped and not part if this stupid thing. But 6 months???? Come on. How much money and resources should we all be expending just to save medicare for everyone's grandparents??? This is not just us, this is the entire country for crying out loud. My mom and your dad, his disabled brother and the like.
By making us all focus so much of our limited resources on this CCHIT, we never get to have an honest conversation about the larger picture and that was my real point in the last post. And yes because of the CCHIT, cchit, that is why I posted it here instead of some other thread, althought I did sort of forget to add that very important component and thanks for bringing it to light.
But, every year we fight like dogs just to "save" the stupid thing and never get any real increase to keep pace with inflation so we can afford new equipment, health insurance for ourselve or our employees or just to keep pace with our own real ever rising costs. Meanwhile by holding the medicare fee schedule down, this becomes real price controls on our supposedly freemarket (that is why we can not talk shop among ourselves right?), and worse it is a BIG windfall profit for the major insurance carriers by acting as the forementioned price controls. Tell me this is not payback for campaign contributions and other perks of the job??? Price controls combined with laws and agencies that hand out rulings that say we are still in a freemarket that then act to totally emasculate us. Now that is pure and utter BULLCCHIT! Gov't bought and sold right in front of our eyes.
How can we fight for the bigger picture, for both ourselves and our patients, when they keep us tied up in knots wasting our few resources on this intentionally recurring theme??? This same stratagy even keeps the seniors' groups incorrectly wasting thier resources and time on this issue as well. Keeping people worried about their daily exsistance, and working in a mound of debt, separated from those in like situations, has been a stratagy used for the powerful for just about all of time. Doctors are no longer highly respected professionals that are different or separate from the rest of society. Instead you guys are just more oppressed labor to keep controlled under the thumb of well thought out stratagies of the insurance industry via well purchased gov't and their henchmen. It is part of a great plan and I for one hate it as I tip my hat to "them" for getting it so well planned and implemented.
BAAAAAA, BAAAAAAA......
Good Night and Good Luck,
Oh and Happy and Merry too,
Paul
