Baltimore Sun: “For an individual doctor or a small practice, switching from paper to digital costs between $40,000 and $60,000. For most doctors, this is a lot of money: The average physician pulls in about $150,000 a year. And the savings from going digital mostly accrue to the insurance companies . . . ‘There’s no incentive to adopt the technology.’”
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“Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who has been pushing the issue for years, said through a spokesman. “Congress and the administration should make a commitment to bringing the nation’s health system into the information age”
Shouldn’t Ted Kennedy be pushing Congress and the administration to make a committment to mandatng that all cars be fully submersible?
Or bring Congress to the information age–that would be when congressmen actually have accurate information about what they are voting on by actually reading the bill. –and every congressman has to affirmatively vote on each earmark budget item. —and each congressman has accurate information about what it is like to live with the laws they pass by dint of having to be subject to them like everyone else and spend most of his career outside of congress and having to fund retirement by his private sector efforts.
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