My favorite quote: "The costs of the technology upgrades will eventually get passed on to consumers through health insurance premiums, and to taxpayers, who subsidize Medicare and Medicaid, said Dr. Paul Hattis, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine....We will ultimately all pay for it,? Hattis said. ?Will we get dividends back in terms of better care and greater efficiencies? We don?t know yet.?
Since it looks like Medicare reimbursements have been determined for the next several years from the SGR fix, and Medicaid reimbursement will be equal or less than Medicare, the costs will not get passed on to consumers for some time. We can go look in the mirror to see who the costs are being passed on to.
