[mdlug] Obama plan to digitize health care

[R. Kannan]

Kudos to you Michael for pulling this thread out of the gutter.

BTW, I fixed the subject line for spelling mistake.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Michael S. Mikowski" <z_mikowski at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jan 12, 2009 12:04 PM
>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [mdlug] Obahma plan to digitize health care
>
>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>
>
>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
>
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