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This is interesting as a doc in WA state.
I wonder if their docs and hospitals are still working on the largest piece of legislation to actually hit the docs?

Perhpas unknown to many readers here.....2 words in the original Obamacare billl....”Meaningful Use” ...turned into 800+ pages of rules regulations and penalties regarding implementing and expanding electronic medical records (including having our current proprietal system mandated to communicate with outside systems fo rthe purpose of a real national databank and electronic chart. Thats right....right now most of your doctors and hospitals are working feverishly on “Meaningful Use” and your chart will soon be visible to some bureaucrat in DC.)

So a few months after Obamacare passed, we were handed an 800+ page document called “Meaningful Use” - which spells out the rules, regulations and penalties of how we set up and data mine our EMR. We actually had to develop an entire new committee to deal with this. It is pervasive, intrusive and encompassing.

Back to my original question.....I wonder if the Idaho docs are making the consious decision to start to ignore meaningful use. If they do, and Obamacare eventually somehow suceeds in getting through SCOTUS, then they are seriously screwed.

People you may not know it, but docs are already working hard on Obamacare as we speak. And Im in WA state - one of the states involved in the FL lawsuit in which the judge found the law unconstitutional.
Its weird, I’m working on federal business that my state says is unconstitutional.

Since I haven't seen your name on these “statesrights” threads before I can only assume you are new to the discussion. What you are parroting is useless tripe that has been sliced and diced on these threads for at least two years. Based on what I've seen so far I seriously doubt you could anything to the discussion that hasn't been covered many times already. You're arguments are old hat and take on the tenor or a troll. JMO of course.

Allow me make a bona fide reply to your post. It’s JMO but I believe the donks and odinga planned this stealthy attack on our health care industy from the gitgo. That is, it would implement or have implemented some “hooks” early on like 26 year olds on parents policies, coverage for preexisting conditions, etc AND force infrastructure to be put in place. After a year or two of this there would be a hue and cry from those gaining coverage and from those having spent MILLION$ in many cases on set up costs for money down the rabbit hole IF the opposition attempted repeal or defunding. Insidious bass turds they are.