More Evidence Against EMRs, and Other News
More evidence that EMRs are not improving the quality of care.
Medicare Chief Actuary: Claims that ObamaCare will reduce medical costs are “false, more than true.”
Another disappointing study result: Pay for Performance doesn’t work.
Disappointing? If the results are accurate, they mean that we can save billions by eliminating worthless ObamaCare subsidies and requirements.
For many policy wonks, electronic medical records (EMRs) hold the promise of improving quality of care by integrating decision-support software that enhances adherence to best practices. However, one of the quotes in the Wall Street Journal blog was interesting… “Reasonable people who work in the health-care system don’t expect any computer program” to drastically change care.
Rick Foster’s testimony suggests how House Republicans can deal with claims that repeal and their other reforms will raise costs: They simply have to insert provisions in their legislation that, by a certain date in the future, government health care costs will be brought into line with existing revenues, quality will be improved, access will be increased, and private health insurance premium costs will fall. If written into a proposed law, the CBO et al. will have to accept any pie-in-the-sky assumptions. As they have done.
This means that the building blocks of Obama
Care don’t work.