Bush cousin opposes Markey on bill - OUTSOURCING

[InkAddict]

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/02/17/bush_cousin_opposes_markey_on_bill/

WASHINGTON -- Representative Edward J. Markey, who has been touting a bill to keep thousands of data-entry jobs generated by healthcare companies from going overseas, ran into a spirited opponent between the sushi boat and the open bar at an inaugural party last month: Jonathan S. Bush, the Waltham healthcare entrepreneur and President Bush's cousin.

Bush is the president of athenahealth Inc., which employs about 200 low-wage workers in India to enter medical data for its clients, including many doctors and hospitals in Massachusetts. Bush insists Markey's proposal would put his company out of business, leaving 370 workers in Markey's own district out of work.


Bush said Markey's bill could actually harm patients' privacy, because money now being spent on protecting privacy would instead have to be spent to pay higher wages to American data-entry workers: "Because we have , we can afford to do a very sophisticated and elaborate blinding system to separate identity from the information."

Those repukes have a "very sophisticated and elaborate blinding system" all right!!!! Anyway... this is a good piece on the issues raised, costs, jobs, privacy, and data security. See what you think and chime in!

[paineinthearse]

1. is this H1523?

If it is, the rethugs have had it bottled in committee for years. It would prevent patient records from going offshore without the patient's consent.

Ed Markey, one of 10 Mass Dem Reps, rocks :yourock:

[roguevalley]

2. so we have to kow-tow to slavers? I hate these people.

[Robert Oak]

3. what a joke "sophisticated and elaborate system"

what? a door lock? a "hard drive"?

Microsoft's firewall?

Give me a break. They do have an elaborate contract system
to make themselves all not liable and no one has recourse to
sue of course if someone's data is stolen and it's discovered.