Comments on: News 4/2/09 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/04/01/news-4209/ Physician practice and systems news and opinion Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Buck Dharma http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/04/01/news-4209/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Buck Dharma Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:42:43 +0000 http://www.histalkpractice.com/?p=432#comment-169 I don't know about you, but in my micro-economics classes in college, we learned that flooding the purchasers with resources didn't lead to lower prices. Does anyone actually think that docs simply aren't going to be conduits through which the stimulus money passes on the way from the taxpayers to the EHR vendors? Does anyone actually think that the vendors aren't going to "find" an extra $60K/doc of things that the practices will have tp spend on? I seriously doubt that this stimulus money will provide much real purchasing power. I don’t know about you, but in my micro-economics classes in college, we learned that flooding the purchasers with resources didn’t lead to lower prices.

Does anyone actually think that docs simply aren’t going to be conduits through which the stimulus money passes on the way from the taxpayers to the EHR vendors? Does anyone actually think that the vendors aren’t going to “find” an extra $60K/doc of things that the practices will have tp spend on?

I seriously doubt that this stimulus money will provide much real purchasing power.

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