There is nothing about improving health care in any of the current health care "reform" bills.  I always thought reform meant trying to improve the system.  Pres. Obama views reform as taking the country down the socialist path. 

I don't hear anything being said about the real problems facing our health care system now.  All I hear is "angry mob", and just today, (8-6-09) Rep. Pelosi called the health care reform bill protesters "Nazi's".  OH. MY. GOD.  Just like the Commucrat she is, she is utilizing Pres. Chavez's method of getting rid of dissenters.  Pretty soon I think she'll be calling for jail terms for the protestors. 

In the current bill, all providers will be required to obtain EMR's.  Mercy Hospital's cost will be somewhere around $65 million.  There are 5,000 hospitals.  That's $325 billion added to the cost of health care.  For nothing.

If you don't think your doctor doesn't listen to you now, wait till he's behind a computer and doesn't even look up at you.  Sheesh.  There is a physician group in town that has obtained EMR.  I have picked up a lot of patients from them, all with the complaint of "all they do is tap their screens".  I'm not kidding.  Imagine that scenario nationwide.

If a physician with EMR has a problem with the computers, he or she will have a terrible time trying to see you.  He won't have the record available, and he won't be able to make sure the treatments are correct, and won't be able to write scripts for you.  When I was talking to a regional vendor, he told me to keep paper records as well as backing up my system.  Well, Hell, if I have to keep paper records anyway, why get EMR?

Also, if the White House, Dept. of Defense, and Los Alamos Labs can't keep their computers and information secure, what makes anyone think the HHS can keep your sensitive and private health records secure?  Heck, the North Koreans have been launching cyber attacks against us for 6 weeks now, and we can’t stop them.  The Chinese stole plans for the F-22 Raptor from Los Alamos Labs last year through a cyber attack.  Holy cow! And they want you to trust them to keep your records safe?

Pres. Obama has already appointed a board of people to determine "best practices".  It's a nice euphemism for rationing.  They are going to determine who gets what care.  If you look at the construction of this board, it is going to consist of "czars" governing each specialty.  (As an aside, is anyone else concerned with all the "czars" we have?  To me, it's just another step to Communism)  It's the same kind of thing the British have.  How the Brits calculate who is "worthy of care" is they take your past productivity, your future productivity, and how critical you are to the government, and that number determines how much health care you get.  When was the last time you heard of anyone flying to England to get their care?  And honestly, how "critical" are you to a "Czar" that doesn't know you from a hole in the ground?

This isn't something I want for me or my children.  What if you child has autism?  In the US they get treated.  In the UK they don't.  What if my mom or dad needed a pacemaker or a stent for a heart blockage?  They're critical to me.  But not a bean counter.  In the US, my parents would get what they needed.  In the UK, they just die.  Same for Alzheimer's and other dementia patients.  In the US they get treated.  In the UK they just die.  Slowly. The list is endless.  And the Commucrats that claim otherwise are just plain wrong.  And the best way to tell they are wrong: They all voted down a proposal that they be subject to the same health care system they want for us, the average American.