Doctors Agree: Obama's Electronic Medical Records Mandate Sucks!

Townhall.com ^ | October 23, 2015 | Michelle Malkin

[GailA]

Which is why I request copies of all my test, hard to get some of them. Had some lost along the way. That way I can hand it to the next doctor I need to see. Have a carry sack with the latest stuff to had him/her.

Mostly to keep my Primary who does not use a computer informed of new test data. I just hope he comes back from sick leave. I’d hate to have to change Primary’s. I took an instant dislike to his partner, one of those by the book Insurance docs. 5 mins, out the door. I have to drive 80 mins or more round trip to see doctors as we live rural and most all the doctors for adults are in Memphis. Not in rural Tipton Co. 1 GP, 1 Pediatric and 1 foot doc. 1 NPA at the Little Clinic at Kroger’s for minor stuff.

Lack of training when sent for test is the worse part of 0’care. Been their victim to many times you are supposed to be trained to access veins to put in IV Pick lines, and you shove the needle all the way through the vein twice...not well trained at all. Letting your patient walk out totally dehydrated is dangerous.

[USS Alaska]

Now the systems are killing docs, and the different systems can’t even communicate with each other - a nightmare.

My heart doc is now in his early-mid 50s, and has told me he will be retiring within a few years {and mostly because of obamacare, which he hates}.

My doc has eliminated taking new patients, and it's sad, because he is a very good doctor.

He has been a heart surgeon for about 30 years and his expertise and experience are hard to replace.

obamacare sux and has many negative impacts on healthcare.

[RipSawyer]

My wife had a disc replacement in her neck and a carpal tunnel operation done at the same time by a brilliant neurosurgeon who told her she was one of his last patients because he was retiring because he refused to go along with the electronic records requirement. I was at the meeting with my wife and when I said something to the effect that it was part of Obamacare he ACTUALLY CORRECTED ME AND TOLD ME THAT IT WAS NOT PART OF OBAMACARE! He said that he likes Obamacare but the electronic records had NOTHING to do with Obamacare. I mentioned it to a lady in his business office and she smiled and told us that the great doctor had no clue what Obamacare was about. I got the impression that he was the embodiment of the cliched genius who is helpless at anything other than his specialty and the women who ran his office had to look out for everything else other than the actual surgery or the doctor would have been a huge failure.
The memory of that experience is one reason I am very sceptical of Dr. Ben Carson. Oh, my wife’s surgery turned out great, she had some pains afterward but they are gradually going away just as he told her to expect.

[RipSawyer]

“We had to pass it to find out what was in it.”

I know all about that, I was a little kid but I still remember swallowing that dime.

[Lou L]

In an ideal, and I stress "ideal" in an academic manner, being able to share patient data among physicians, specialists, surgeons and other healthcare personnel would be a fantastic idea...at a distant point in the future.

As it stands today however, it simply takes too long to enter or update patient information. I can't tell you how many duplicate forms I've had to complete in the past two years alone. Who else knows what I'm talking about...having to write my patient history from doctor's office to doctor's office infuriates me.

May God help anyone who has to deal with the aftermath of trying to correct a mistake, or explaining to the insurance company when they tell you they won't pay for a service because they don't cover the code that was presented to their systems, when you know darn well they should cover the service.

[Liz]

Pelosi was orgasmic at the O/Care signing. Ut, oh. Harry's hands are not visible.

The Obamacare atrocity was a cunning vehicle for
consolidating Dummycrat power. Dems cashed-in bigtime.

(A) Michelle's buddy---botched the billion dollar web site rollout---still doesn't work.

(B) Harry Reid's $4 billion "accidental" payment to Landrieu is a clue to how the straight party-line vote got this atrocity passed.

(C) A multi-billion dollar slush fund---the Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest.

Egged on by Pelosi, no one in Congress told Americans about Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).

In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion and in 2015 and on, $2 billion........

....the reasons for all those O/Care delays, fixits, exemptions, waivers, extensions, etc, are becoming crystal clear.