The Department of Health and Human Services recently released rules for creating electronic health records. These rules came days after HHS issued regulations to safeguard the privacy of medical records.This digital revolution could dramatically improve medical care. The RAND Corporation estimates America could save $77 billion a year with health information technology (HIT).But policymakers must … [Read more...] about Pros, Cons Converting to Electronic Medical Records
Pros, Cons Converting to Electronic Medical Records
The Department of Health and Human Services recently released rules for creating electronic health records. These rules came days after HHS issued regulations to safeguard the privacy of medical records.This digital revolution could dramatically improve medical care. The RAND Corporation estimates America could save $77 billion a year with health information technology (HIT).But policymakers must … [Read more...] about Pros, Cons Converting to Electronic Medical Records
Why the Obama Health Plan Is Not Entitlement Reform
“Health care reform is entitlement reform.”So said Peter Orszag, President Barack Obama’s first budget director, at a bipartisan fiscal responsibility summit called by the president in February 2009. President Obama had assumed office just a little over a month earlier, and he was signaling to the country and to those present at the White House that his top domestic priority during his first year … [Read more...] about Why the Obama Health Plan Is Not Entitlement Reform
Why the Obama Health Plan Is Not Entitlement Reform
“Health care reform is entitlement reform.”So said Peter Orszag, President Barack Obama’s first budget director, at a bipartisan fiscal responsibility summit called by the president in February 2009. President Obama had assumed office just a little over a month earlier, and he was signaling to the country and to those present at the White House that his top domestic priority during his first year … [Read more...] about Why the Obama Health Plan Is Not Entitlement Reform
Providing Coverage For All Through Private Health Insurance
The United States is unique in the developed world in that the majority of Americans have private health insurance that they receive through the workplace. This is not the result of a deliberate decision but rather policy that evolved as the unintended consequence of a World War II ruling. Factory owners were competing to lure and keep good workers and wanted to offer health insurance as a … [Read more...] about Providing Coverage For All Through Private Health Insurance
Providing Coverage For All Through Private Health Insurance
The United States is unique in the developed world in that the majority of Americans have private health insurance that they receive through the workplace. This is not the result of a deliberate decision but rather policy that evolved as the unintended consequence of a World War II ruling. Factory owners were competing to lure and keep good workers and wanted to offer health insurance as a … [Read more...] about Providing Coverage For All Through Private Health Insurance
ObamaCare Puts Government Run Monopoly on Fast Track
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised millions of eyebrows in early March when she told reporters, we have to pass the health reform bill "so that you can find out what is in it." It goes without saying that few, if any, of the federal lawmakers who voted to pass the legislation had any idea of what was lurking in its 2,801 pages. Nevertheless, Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, … [Read more...] about ObamaCare Puts Government Run Monopoly on Fast Track
ObamaCare Puts Government Run Monopoly on Fast Track
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised millions of eyebrows in early March when she told reporters, we have to pass the health reform bill "so that you can find out what is in it." It goes without saying that few, if any, of the federal lawmakers who voted to pass the legislation had any idea of what was lurking in its 2,801 pages. Nevertheless, Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry … [Read more...] about ObamaCare Puts Government Run Monopoly on Fast Track