Obama Care Case Study

Imagin your life flashing before your eyes and waking up in a hospitial bed. As the nurses are all frantic around you they beging to bombard you with questions. Questions you feel that the doctors should already know, “When was your last hospitial vistit? What are you allergic to? What medication are you on?” and so many more. However, with Illnois current health database your health records are in the hands of your doctor. They don’t need to tell any hospitial any of your information if they don’t want to. In result, every single time an emergency or just a check up you need to go through the same list of questions. Why can’t all hospitals just share information? You may be asking. Well, Illnois current health database is not on an online engine which also makes it less functional and unable for your different health providers to communicate. If the United State has a desire to promote our genral welfare why won’t they help states, like illnois, make an online health database? …show more content…
With this the affordable care act gave money to Illions to start the HIE to have a central place to pull up your medical records. Many people did not like the idea of the HIE in fear of losing their customers. Although the Health Information Exchange might make it easier for doctors and nurses, they also feared that if any doctor could pull up peoples medical information that their customers would not stay. With doctors and nurses worried another person that was worried was insurance agencies, they were also worried that they would lose