It's not a bug, it's a feature your future

bostonchannel/AP:

Bush Pushes For Computerized Health Records
President Promotes Plan To Computerize Records Within Decade

President George W. Bush says America's medical technology may be tops, but its medical record-keeping is stuck in the "buggy era."

"Buggy"? Like Amish SUVs?

"The 21st-century health care system is using a 19th-century paperwork system," Bush said. The result is that files get misplaced and problems with drug interactions aren't systematically checked, among other problems. "These old methods of keeping records are real threats to patients and their safety and are incredibly costly," he said.

Ahh, okaay. Like Buggy-buggies. Cute ponies, old timey. For a minute there I thought--Wait a sec...

Not all doctors are ready to jump on board the electronic record-keeping train, either. Dr. Marc Seigel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine, said he has concerns... He said electronic records might lose sight of patient privacy -- records might get shipped to specialists or related doctors without express patient permission. "For the purpose of patient access, I'm all for it. For doctor use, I'm all for it," Seigel said. "But it's access for third parties that I'm worried about."

Oh, that kind of "buggy". It's not a bug, it's a feature buggy. Like say, touchscreen voting but-no-paper-trail, gross system failures, lost votes, software security holes, your voting history available to interested parties on the web buggy? Wired: How E-Voting Threatens Democracy buggy?

Those bugs, pesky euphemisms. They're everywhere. Lookee here, one more that almost got away: "...But it's access for third parties that I'm worried about." Gee, who do we think the good doctor might really be referring to there? Couldn't be his altrusitic friends in the actuarial and apothecary trades could it?

Nah. He'd have to be buggy to suggest something like that.