"The computer ate my term paper" vs "The computer ate the patient history

[Johonny]

6. Democrats have tried for a national health care database but it has been blocked for years

Even though many Europeans have one. Republicans hate the idea and even some Democrats afraid of big government "knowing" their medical history block the idea too. Meanwhile anyone in this country who has had a serious medical issue that deals with multiple doctors knows that no one actually knows you medical history. Information typically gets lost, isn't transferred from one doctor's office to another, they have a different system etc... all this would be helped if we moved our medical records into the 20th century. I mean it isn't even 21st century thinking here as other countries have done it for years. It is embarrassing how backwards this country is in medical record keeping. I don't see this as a lame excuse. I see this as typical of the actual system we use in this country, know isn't good enough, and yet refuse to fix because of... IDK freedom or so they claim.