in respect to D. Frissnell <g> - ------- Forwarded message Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 06:49:28 -0400 From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Subject: and you wondered what would take the place of Star Wars A review of the ****Clinton Health Care Plan To Focus On Computer Support 10/07/93 WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1993 OCT 7 (NB) "The Clinton Administration proposal would put smart cards in the hands of every US citizen and some legal aliens that would provide billing reference identification as well as carry up to about 30 pages of medical data about the individual. That change, along with a simplification of medical billing forms, would literally save billions of dollars that could be used to treat patients, and it looks as if there is growing pressure from the public to actually force the health care industry to take advantage of computer technology that has been available for at least 10 years. If health care reform really does take off, industry insiders say that computer sales, and especially integration services, will really explode, with health care taking on the same sort of high- profile, high-profit role that was, until recently, the sole purview of the military." ------- End of Forwarded Message