Stimulus Bill Forces Doctors To...

The Fake Lonnie Finch · February 10, 2009

Having a wife doctor, let me tell you, if records were electronic and transferable between hospitals, it would free her up to do actual work... Just saying.
Maybe this isn't the big bad government wanting to control people. Maybe it is the same government that invented the "internet" for easy communication for researchers.

All good and well, but the federal government doesn't penalize people who don't utilize the internet for research. Nor did it set up a whole new level of bureaucracy, replete with all of the salaries and expenses that come with it, to be sure people make "reasonable use" of research on the internet.

It's just another step toward driving good doctors underground and replacing them with the type who went to medical schools in Haiti and Mexico and the like.

Edited February 10, 2009 by The Fake Lonnie Finch

yyz28 · February 10, 2009

All good and well, but the federal government doesn't penalize people who don't utilize the internet for research. Nor did it set up a whole new level of bureaucracy, replete with all of the salaries and expenses that come with it, to be sure people make "reasonable use" of research on the internet.
It's just another step toward driving good doctors underground and replacing them with the type who went to medical schools in Haiti and Mexico and the like.

Just ask New Mexico.

oldguystudent · February 10, 2009

Did you expect Obama to write that check for you?

I was kinda' hoping that you might write that check. Barring that, I had to go to the California insurance board and make the insurance pay up for what our contract said they covered.

GreenMachine · February 10, 2009

Sure. Like the time my daughter was born and they performed an emergency c-section, put the kid in NICU for a week, and placed my wife in a private room instead of a semi-private room since nothing else was available. I just wrote a check for that $44,000 bill that was composed entirely of covered events.

you must have some very crappy insurance. My son had complications at birth, spent 13 days in intensive care at Cooks Children and out of the entire $92K in bills, I paid $1k out of pocket.