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Anyone who was here several years ago, before and right after Obamacare passed, must remember this:
On this board, in Politics, there was an ARMY of apparently (some self-identified) liberal Democrat, pro-Obama, pro-Obamacare posters insisting that the Affordable Care Act would be WONDERFUL for all Americans. To hear this rabid force tell it, the cost of insurance for everyone would go down (making health insurance "affordable") and we would all be in some kind of medical care utopia. And the EHR was GREAT because it saved patient's lives. Job security? No worries! There are PLENTY of jobs in MT despite the EHR, and EHR is opening up ALL KINDS of new opportunities! You can go get training to help medical facilities transition into the EHR, and some of these jobs pay BIG BUCKS!! Everything was going to be PEACHY! Anyone who disagreed with them was jumped on viciously and attacked unmercifully with a barrage of ad hominems.
I frequent many political forums online and have seen that before. I always wondered if they were PAID posters, and I also wondered if they SPECIFICALLY targeted this rather niche, off-the-beaten-path forum because of the devastation suffered by our profession because of the EHR. (The EHR predates the ACA, but the ACA finalized the mandate.)
To be honest, I have always considered MTs (in general) to be smarter than the average Joe, and I couldn't believe so many MTs could be that -- well, dense. So I never believed this was organic, that all these MTs -- many of whom no doubt were ICs so had no employer-paid benefits -- were embracing the new health insurance MANDATE in addition to technology which had the very REAL potential of destroying our very livelihood.
Now, here we are, years later. Look at us!! (what's left of us)
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