This is the first time I have used my blog as a response to a news article, but the article seems to foreshadow what America may be going through in five years.
Apparently England is five years ahead of us in trying to make an online centralized Health Care system. This sounds very similar to one part of the Health Care reform trying to be passed in Washington.
The Conservatives have said they would create huge cost savings for the NHS by scrapping plans for a central database of patient records.
Every patient would have a username and password and IT firms such as Google or Microsoft could host the information.
England has tried what we are about to do, and it is failing. They have found private businesses that will do the work for them, so why not take it? It would create more jobs by extending the online Health sector of the economy and achieve exactly what Obama is hoping to achieve with the use of taxpayer money (or more realistically, money on loan from China).
The system they are scrapping has cost over 12 billion pounds, so I hope the government learns from their mistake and doesn't throw billions more out the window in an already failed idea.
