Posted on 08/22/2009 12:55:34 PM PDT by pabianice
“HR 3200: Section 1401, Page 503: The Government will build a central electronic database of ALL private medical records and may secure directly from any agency or department information necessary to carry-out the provisions of this Bill…”
While President Obama’s Healthcare Plan contains a multitude of horrors, perhaps the worst is making available online to your local town government and police your complete personal records.
Do not be calmed by assurances that these records will be assiduously protected and available only to proper channels for the purpose of ensuring your health. Let me suggest that this private information will be shared nationwide "for the children." Just look at the “security” of your private information. Last week it was revealed that as many as 130 million Americans have had their social security numbers and credit account data stolen from business private records. The ever-growing myriad of companies promising to ensure your data privacy is not the result of a system that protects your information. So now comes ObamaCare, which, if passed, will absolutely allow your local police department – in the interest of “public safety” – to see your private medical records. That period after your husband died and you saw a psychiatrist for months to get over the grief? Reason to revoke your license to carry firearms as “unfit” due to having a psychiatric record. That time your prescription for Terazosin for prostate problems caused you to faint at work once as you stood up because of momentary hypotension? Bye-bye driver’s license because you are a “public safety hazard.” The time you told your doctor that you had suicidal thoughts after your best friend died? Kiss your commercial driver’s license and your trucker’s job goodbye. The time you ran outside in your shorts to get your newspaper, fell down the steps, and were taken to the hospital as seen by the neighbor’s ten year old? Bingo! You are now a sex offender! Ever have a vindictive spouse claim at the hospital that you ‘threw her down’ and hurt her? You will never again set foot inside a town school if you are a teacher. The possibilities are endless, especially where local government is already out of control (think Deep Blue states).
Just one more thing to consider in the president’s determination to “make us more like the rest of the world.”
“We want to assure...”
VA agrees to pay $20M in laptop theft case
* By Mary Mosquera
* Jan 28, 2009
The Veterans Affairs Department has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit filed by veterans over the risk of potential identity theft when a VA laptop PC that contained their sensitive information was stolen in 2006. The laptop contained files with personally identifiable information on millions of veterans, such as names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.
Attorneys for the VA and the veterans filed legal papers Jan. 27 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to settle the suit, and a judge must approve the terms of the settlement. The class-action lawsuit, filed in 2006, asked for $1,000 in damages for every veteran whose data was put at risk.
After the theft, the VA offered to provide credit protection for veterans whose data was on the laptop thieves stole from the Maryland home of a VA analyst. Law enforcement officials later recovered the laptop PC, and forensic investigators determined that the criminals had not accessed sensitive data, department officials said.
“We want to assure veterans there is no evidence that the information involved in this incident was used to harm a single veteran,” a VA spokeswoman said in a statement.
This was already accomplished in the stimulus bill.
Wonder how long until such a national health registry is used by the gun grabbers.
It will be used to eliminate opposition to the Chosen Ones.
The entire episode is very strange. They funded it in the stimulus bill, but they don’t have an authorizing bill to go forward with it. They can’t do anything until it is both authorized and funded. Why did they do this backwards? This is the “Big Brother” provision of HR3200. The government will have all records of your physical existence. Your medical records will be used to determine whether you are worthy enough to get government authorization for a particular treatment or drug.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated . . ."
Security in our legal personal and business dealings from government is a Natural Right which government has abused since the income tax. Pressure is building in the public boiler and our pols have wired the safety valve shut.
Just imagine the abuses as incorrect data is applied to your records with no audit trail...we could all be relegated to the gulag of being landscapers with just a few damning entries.
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