This Table is from the New England Journal of Medicine and is a great summary of the Stimulus plan for Healthcare. It shows an expenditure for HIT in excess $19 billion which exceeds my previous number from HR1 and its Section 3000 by $12 billion. I must go back and figure out where the remainder is hidden. It grants physicians up to $65,000 for implementation which is what I may have missed the first time through.
The total is $136 billion! Of that $87 billion goes to states for Medicaid programs. Additional $25 billion goes to assist in unemployment health coverage and the comparative effectiveness is a total of $1.1 billion.
One needs to become a biblical scholar reading the document again and again and reinterpreting it. Almost 17.5% of the Stimulus is for Healthcare and most of that is directly for payments to states and subsidies for COBRA payments.
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