Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Bad Health IT: "People Aren’t Educated on How to Use the Internet"

The ultimate "blame the user" excuse for bad health IT comes from, of all places, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>Washington Free Beacon </b><br /><a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/harry-reid-people-arent-educated-on-how-to-use-the-internet/">http://freebeacon.com/issues/harry-reid-people-arent-educated-on-how-to-use-the-internet/</a><br /><time class="entry-date" datetime="2014-03-26T13:16:44+00:00" pubdate="">March 26, 2014 1:16 pm</time><br /><br />Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said the fault of struggling to sign up on the Obamacare exchanges <b>didn’t lie with the faulty website,</b> but <b>with the people who weren’t “educated on how to use the Internet.”</b><br /><br />Explaining the reasoning behind the latest Obamacare delay, Reid said too many people <b>just didn’t know to use their computer properly </b>and needed more time. Apparently, it had nothing to do with the well-documented <a href="http://youtu.be/AAtgsizDWV0">failings of the website</a> that have embarrassed the White House for months. <span style="color: red;"><i><b> [Really?  What an amazing theory about IT difficulties - ed.]</b></i></span><br /><br />“We have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up who didn’t get through,” he said. “There are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet, and these people need a little extra time. It’s not — the example they gave us is a 63-year-old woman came into the store and said, ‘<b>I almost got it. Every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.’ </b> </blockquote><br />Obviously due to user error, not due to poor health IT. <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We have a lot of people just like this through no fault of the Internet, <b>but because people are not educated on how to use the Internet.”</b></blockquote><br />It's not the software designer's or website's fault, it's the fault of Americans, most of whom are dummies and who should know how to get around bad health IT's flaws.  <br /><br />Wow. <br /><br />That's why physicians complain about health IT too, no doubt.  They're dummies. <br /><br />Maybe Mr. Reed should speak with the inventor of the Internet, former Veep Al Gore, about that.  Mr. Gore can perhaps write a better <b>"Internet Instruction Manual for Dummies."</b><br /><br />(I'll bet most of the dummies who "do not know how to use the Internet" have no problems using Amazon.com or eBay.)<br /><br />-- SS

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Bad Health IT: "People Aren’t Educated on How to Use the Internet"

The ultimate "blame the user" excuse for bad health IT comes from, of all places, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:Washington Free Beacon http://freebeacon.com/issues/harry-reid-people-arent-educated…

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