“We called it the Sunny von Bülow bill. These companies that should have been dead were being put on machines and kept alive for another few years. The biggest players drew this incredible huddle around the rule-makers and the rules are ridiculously favorable to these companies and ridiculously unfavorable to society.”
—Jonathan Bush, co-founder of Athenahealth, in a New York Times story on federal incentives for electronic health records in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act