Comments on: Paper kills more than trees http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2008/12/16/paper-kills-more-than-trees/ Class Warfare and Video Games Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maniakes http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2008/12/16/paper-kills-more-than-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Maniakes Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:36:38 +0000 http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/?p=150#comment-422 Did Apple email you your receipt because the government required them to, or was the free market involved somehow? Did Apple email you your receipt because the government required them to, or was the free market involved somehow?

]]> By: Dawn B. http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2008/12/16/paper-kills-more-than-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Dawn B. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:07:23 +0000 http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/?p=150#comment-421 While that is true, blaming 'free-market' for preventing the change over (when there is no free-market in medicine due to the over litigation of doctors and the forced malpractice insurance at high premiums, protected wages by the government and funding by taxes and insurance based laws that give loopholes) is just plain wrong. I don't disagree that a move toward electronic perscriptions would be better. I do disagree with blaming something that (a) doesn't exist and (b) isn't the main impediment. Also, the system would not be 80% better. The system would be haphazard as doctors now have to remember which ones they can do electronically and which they have to do on paper. Patients get their time wasted when it done wrong. Further lawsuits and lost health/lives due to incorrect usage. While that is true, blaming ‘free-market’ for preventing the change over (when there is no free-market in medicine due to the over litigation of doctors and the forced malpractice insurance at high premiums, protected wages by the government and funding by taxes and insurance based laws that give loopholes) is just plain wrong.

I don’t disagree that a move toward electronic perscriptions would be better. I do disagree with blaming something that (a) doesn’t exist and (b) isn’t the main impediment. Also, the system would not be 80% better. The system would be haphazard as doctors now have to remember which ones they can do electronically and which they have to do on paper. Patients get their time wasted when it done wrong. Further lawsuits and lost health/lives due to incorrect usage.

]]> By: Punning Pundit http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2008/12/16/paper-kills-more-than-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Punning Pundit Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:11:21 +0000 http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/?p=150#comment-420 Because a system that is 80% better (which is being worked on to become 100% better) should be preferable to a system which kills or injures 1.5 million people per year. Because a system that is 80% better (which is being worked on to become 100% better) should be preferable to a system which kills or injures 1.5 million people per year.

]]> By: Dawn B. http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2008/12/16/paper-kills-more-than-trees/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Dawn B. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:42:18 +0000 http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/?p=150#comment-419 No. As per the article per the FDA there are many medications/perscriptions that are NOT ALLOWED by the 'heavy hand of gov't' to be e-perscribed so why should doctors adopt a system that is not 100%? No. As per the article per the FDA there are many medications/perscriptions that are NOT ALLOWED by the ‘heavy hand of gov’t’ to be e-perscribed so why should doctors adopt a system that is not 100%?

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