AFSCME 3357-HOF'S BLOG

Towards Paperless Hospitals
What's this? A Kennedy and Newt Gingrich agreeing on something? In a joint press conference, Re. Patrick Kennedy and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced a program to create a paperless hospital system.

Gingrich said 98,000 people die in hospitals every year due to medical errors. (Yet per Republican doctrine, malpractice attorneys are somehow evil for trying to hold bad doctors acountable.)

The bill introduced seeks $5 Billion to get the hospitals wired up. It's a great idea. We might actually have the money for such things if SOMEBODY hadn't started an optional war that has cost $130 Billion and counting.

The Demos need to collect $130 Billion worth of the most worthy, bipartisan-backed projects that have died on the vine for lack of funding and put out Huge advertisements to the American public saying "If you think the war in Iraq is a good idea, THIS is what we could have had instead. . ."


USATODAY.com - Newt Gingrich pushes 'wired' hospitals