[mdlug] Obahma plan to digitize health care

[Michael S. Mikowski]

Hi Gary and All:

On Monday 12 January 2009 08:14:21 Garry Stahl wrote:
> <EX CATHEDRA> Please take it to the discuss list.  This s politics, not
> computers. </EX CATHEDRA>

While this was presented politically and descended into name calling, I do 
very much appreciate the topic.  Let me try to pull this back into the Linux 
world.

First, I fixed the title :)

I believe should mobilize to get this system OSS-based!  There are lots of 
content management systems that run very well on Linux that could be 
candidates for this purpose.

The establishment is almost certainly already working on cornering this 
market, locking it down, and making it part of their profit machines.   
Cornering the Medicare records processing is how Ross Perot made his billions.  
And yes, they probably would want to use out-sourced labor.

Research and experience shows how fractured health-care insurance system 
(HMO's) bilk nearly all tax payers through denied claims and vastly enriches 
the few to the tune of billions of dollars for individual executives.  See 
United Health Care, WellPoint, etc. Toyota opted to build some plants in 
Canada in spite of enormous offers from US states because of our health care 
mess.

If this is going to happen, letting this fall into the hands of the 
establishment with closed solutions would be a serious misstep IMO.  I for one 
will be exploring opportunities to become part of this effort using OSS.  
Today.

Sincerely, Mike