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As an EHR developer, this is the most correct comment I've read on the internet, maybe ever.

• duffpkg 6y ago
  thank you
• tonyhb 6y ago
  +1 unfortunately. This isn't the place for that but... Really. This is reality.
• sumtechguy 6y ago
  As a former EHR dev many of our costs come from these very same systems too. Procedures auto added to people just for walking into a building. Usually I tell people to review the bill make sure all the procedures were actually done. Many are skipped. Because they are not really needed but are still billed for. My exp is before the big conglomerates. Doctors when I did this were crazy cheap on what they would spend money on. This has sort of moved over to the cost center now and the doctors are the ones who get shorted along with everyone else. These systems also create a sense of not knowing what is going on. They create a system to disincentive people for looking at ways to make it better. Only the bean counters and shareholders look into that. So you end up with very strange cost cutting initiatives. Then we added mega insurance into the mix. Which has seemed to found out it is just dandy to pass the bill onto everyone while the costs go up and up. They were supposed to keep a lid on the prices. But they didn't. I do not hold out any hope for a 'medicare for all' system doing any better. The insurance companies have a good incentive to do better. The gov not so much.