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2008-10-30 Home Front: Politix

Obama's prime-time ad skips over budget realities

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-10-30 03:20|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 You know your gambit stinks when your own minions in the press start mocking you.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-10-30 08:38|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-30 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama also said "Americans" (i.e. individuals) earning less than $250K a yr would get a tax break - now, as of last night he said "American Families" (i.e. dual incomes) earning less than $200K a yr. It's all in the semantics....figures can lie but liars always figure.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-10-30 09:14|| 2008-10-30 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 and Biden said $150,000. Tell me, it's great to constantly use "families" but how much per head?

Does that mean a single making $100,000 gets socked?

Posted by AlanC 2008-10-30 09:53|| 2008-10-30 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 That's his out. "Woah. Damn. Sorry folks I can't do all that good shit I told yas about. And, yes, I will be blaming Bush. Probably for about four years."

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-30 09:56|| 2008-10-30 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama hopes that by spending $50 billion over five years on electronic medical records and by improving access to proven disease management programs

The major hospitals in our city already use electronic medical records. My doctor uses electronic medical records. So does this mean that Washington will have access to all medical records under BO? Does this mean another agency will be created to handle this?

Another empty promise. Seems that Obama skips over a lot of realities. I guess he figures the "devil is in the details so forget about it. Don't worry about it. Er, er, we're busy measuring the Whitehouse for new drapes. I'll get back to you after I'm elected."

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-30 10:16|| 2008-10-30 10:16|| Front Page Top

#6 "Spend and hope it works out" seems to be his plan.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-30 10:21|| 2008-10-30 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 We're trying to implement an electronic medical record right now (Epic) and let me tell you, it isn't easy. Some organizations, like the VA and Kaiser, have done it well, and some have done it poorly.

My major concern over the EMR is privacy. I can handle the inefficiency part, the clunky interface, the additional time it's going to take for me to find stuff, and the nattering IT people who are going to tell me how to practice.

But the first time an Obama administration federal health care administrator decides to help herself to Joe the Plumber's EMR just to see if she can find some dirt on him, I'm going to get pretty mad.

Posted by Steve White 2008-10-30 10:20|| 2008-10-30 10:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Always been in the semantics, he's a GD lawyer; just like he has never clarified whether ~~250000~~ 200000 ~~or 150000?~~ net or gross so people assume its net when really it would be gross.

Why would the government spend that amount of money except for access to and control of medical records?

Iraq's surplus, based on the price of oil, is needed to rebuild infastructure and train police/troops with new equipment.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-10-30 10:55|| 2008-10-30 10:55|| Front Page Top

#9 For a good (or bad) example of an national EMR implementation look at the NIS in England or the VA system in the United States.

Will a 'Healthcare Czar' (like Michelle Obama - working in a Hospital qualifies her right?) dictate national practices for orders, prescriptions, procedures? Will they be based on 'best practice' or 'least expensive'? Will the Doctors and Practitioners now be Unionized like the teachers union - where innovation and excellence is discouraged?
I don't think having your local Hospital run like your school district would be a very good idea.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-10-30 11:20|| 2008-10-30 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10 "Spend and hope it works out" seems to be his plan.

And if it doesn't, there is a well established tradition of what to do.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-30 13:43|| 2008-10-30 13:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Or, as they used to call it, "money down a rathole"...

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-30 13:45|| 2008-10-30 13:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Steve White:

Thanks for identifying me as a "nattering IT people". My company installs EHR aka EMR. Since the Bush veto override in July our hottest product has been e-prescriptions. The docs got a 2% incentive instead of a 10% cut in Medicare reimbursement.

My wife, Kilo Hotel and I also have Kaiser. We enjoy the online convenience.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-10-30 19:16|| 2008-10-30 19:16|| Front Page Top

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