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Final Stimulus Bill Creates Government Database that Will Hold Every American’s Personal Medical...
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Posted on 02/12/2009 12:00:53 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Final Stimulus Bill Creates Government Database that Will Hold Every American’s Personal Medical Records Thursday, February 12, 2009 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) - The final version of the stimulus bill, negotiated by the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, includes a provision creating a federal data base that will hold the personal medical records of every American, Katie Grant, spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told CNSNews.com Thursday.

The full language of the final package had not been released as of press time. But the the bills that passed both the House and Senate created an “Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology” and called for the coordinator to create a national database and a plan for “the utilization of an electronic health record (EHR) for each person in the United States by 2014.”

Asked if the provision for the “utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014” was in the final bill agreed to by the House-Senate conference committee, Grant said, “It is.” She later said “correct” when asked a second time if this language was in the final bill.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho2009; democratcongress; democrats; healthcare; marxism; medicalrecords; neomarxism; obama; obamacare; porkulus; socialism; stimulus
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oh goody
1 posted on 02/12/2009 12:00:53 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

So much for HIPA


2 posted on 02/12/2009 12:02:53 PM PST by Redleg Duke ("Sarah Palin...Unleashing the Fury of the Castrated Left!")
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To: Sub-Driver

Time for the lawsuits on this outrageous intrusion of privacy to begin


3 posted on 02/12/2009 12:03:27 PM PST by prismsinc (A.K.A. "The Terminator"!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hillary Care gave the congress back to the Pubbies after only two years.

Hopefully this provision will do the same.


4 posted on 02/12/2009 12:03:30 PM PST by BigBobber
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To: Sub-Driver

Except for Mr. Øbama, Democratic leaders of the House and Senate


5 posted on 02/12/2009 12:04:18 PM PST by Son House (Limbaugh's Bipartisan Economic Stimulus Plan is offering Mr. Øbama an OUT from terrible legislation)
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To: Sub-Driver

..ah ah ah..all my shots?

6 posted on 02/12/2009 12:05:32 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sub-Driver

Doesn’t this violate privacy rights?

I know I always have to sign a form releasing ANY of my medical records to another physician.

Will I be asked to sign a form releasing them to the feds?


7 posted on 02/12/2009 12:05:57 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: Redleg Duke
We really need to have the courts smack this sucker down quick. At the same time we should start releasing information regarding sexual indiscreations and juvenile crimes commited by the members of Congress who voted for this.

I'm sure there are some. Bet we can find plenty on Pelosi in Baltimore's back-alleys ~ guys who know what STDs she picked up and passed around, that sort of thing. Real medical stuff!

8 posted on 02/12/2009 12:07:23 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Sub-Driver

“When confronted by this provision by Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, cancer survivor Arlen Spector professed surprise at hearing about the inclusion of such a program. He then promised to vote against any bill that included such a provision”.

The provision is still in there, any bets that he’s going to honor his word?????


9 posted on 02/12/2009 12:08:29 PM PST by TxAnn56
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To: Sub-Driver
You gotta hand it to Barry. He is following the script nearly to a "T". This is not the Porkulus Bill, it should be heralded as "The Marxism Conversion Act of 2009", with its 'stealth-health' provision.

Washington DC shall henceforth be renamed Obamastan (pronounced oh-bah-mah-stahn), and the country shall be known as the United Socialist States of North Amerika.

10 posted on 02/12/2009 12:09:03 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Sub-Driver

“In other news, today the federal Office of Health Information Technology confirmed that the health records for 178 million Americans had been copied by hackers breaking into a computer in the main office in Washington. They emphasized that they did not expect that anyone’s health care privacy had been compromised by the break-in and said that they were taking steps to improve the security of the system to prevent future break-ins. The flawed security was traced to the former Bush administration that badly botched the computerization of health care records.”


11 posted on 02/12/2009 12:10:46 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Son House

So the government now has a record of every person that has AIDS?

This alone will be enough to get the left on board.


12 posted on 02/12/2009 12:12:02 PM PST by Brookhaven (Until the three traitors are removed from the Republican Party, I am no longer a Republican.)
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To: TxAnn56

I saw his interview with Megyn, and he very carefully DID NOT say he would vote against it - he just said that he guaranteed that would not be in there.


13 posted on 02/12/2009 12:12:51 PM PST by AzSteven ("War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." Jean Dutourd)
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To: Salamander

Yes it violates privacy rights, and weren’t they the ones freaking out over the bill to allow Bush Admin to easedrop on terrorists? This opens the way to decide who lives and dies by euthenasia....by looking at your possible cost to the government healthcare in future.
Americans have lost their mind on this one.


14 posted on 02/12/2009 12:12:56 PM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: Brookhaven

It will also list any STDs Congresscritters may have contracted from a ‘mistress’.


15 posted on 02/12/2009 12:14:09 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: muawiyah
This will make denial of concealed weapon permits, even purchasing firearms so much easier for the BATF!

"Ahhh, we see you were prescribed a tranquilizer back in 1981!". "You obviously have an unstable personality... NO guns for You!".

16 posted on 02/12/2009 12:15:09 PM PST by JDoutrider
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To: Sub-Driver

So, the government, without our consent, collecting all of our medical records is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment, but the Commander-in-Chief, though the NSA, conducting signals intelligence against terrorist abroad, when their communications come into or through the United States, is?

The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.


17 posted on 02/12/2009 12:15:30 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Sub-Driver
I guarantee that this medical database will be used to evaluate job applicants, just as they do credit reports now.

Dems will say that only doctors will have access to the info. Guess what, company HR departments can hire a doctor too.

You may never know why you didn't get that perfect job. Maybe it was that high blood pressure or stress test? Maybe you once went to counseling?

18 posted on 02/12/2009 12:16:49 PM PST by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think it’s damned well time for another Revolution, myself.


19 posted on 02/12/2009 12:17:04 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: Kackikat

Have you felt that you’ve “lived too long”?

I never imagined I would be alive to see Marxism take over the US.

I’m only 47 but I feel ancient.

[and not coincidentally, this “feeling” only started in the last 6 months]


20 posted on 02/12/2009 12:17:17 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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