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Couldn't disagree more (none / 0) (#76)
by waldenpond on Thu Sep 23, 2010 at 04:01:12 PM EST
with about everything you just wrote.  Cost is the effect of not participating.  For myself, the company, the hospital, the community.

I worked at a hospital for years (still do part-time contract work) doing budgets and even negotiating insurance contracts so am very familiar with the (I'll be polite and call them) 'inefficiencies'.  I have experience with data systems and it unless a severe systems error has occurred, it should not be possible to include your personal data.  (Could anything be more basic than simply blocking the ability to download personal info?) My lab tests go to the doc and the hospital etc and my privacy has never been violated.  Also, health care data is really, really uninteresting.  Most of it's coding and it's just too boring to inspire most to look.

I couldn't disagree more that I am not saving.  I save on insurance costs and by not having to pay co-pays.  Having worked for a non-profit, the goal is to provide the greatest care to the largest number of people .. the benefits of wellness programs in cost and longevity are indisputable for long-term community health.

It would be great if we could stop worrying about health care but it seems there is an opportunity for continuing education.

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