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Code Red: How software companies could screw up Obama's health care reform (Washington Monthly)Code Red: How software companies could screw up Obama's health care reform (Washington Monthly)Posted Jul 24, 2009 4:41 UTC (Fri) by jmorris42 (subscriber, #2203)In reply to: Code Red: How software companies could screw up Obama's health care reform (Washington Monthly) by foom Parent article: Code Red: How software companies could screw up Obama's health care reform (Washington Monthly)
> There is a basic level of human decency which obligates us, as
> a society, to not leave people dying outside in the cold of > winter when they are homeless, and to feed them when they > cannot afford to eat.
Even if one accepts that moral code, where is it written that only by nationalizing the entire medical industry will the poor sick be cared for? By that logic we must nationalize food production and distribution so that we can feed the poor. And nationalize housing. Except of course not even socialist Europe does that.... yet. Provide healthcare to the poor if you must, but keep the means of production for that care in private hands lest the quality and quantity of it diminish as happens when the government meddles.
But of course this whole discussion is pointless. If medical records are to be computerized the big outfits with tentacles sunk deep into the current administration will get the contracts and the code will be closed and the data stored in closed silos. GE Medical Systems seems to have the winning political hand and technical merit (or even does something actually work) matters not with this bunch of power mad fools we have elected to rule us.
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