Posted on 09/23/2011 4:55:09 PM PDT by Scythian
In a proposed rule from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal government is demanding insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients.
See Proposed Rule: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Standards Related to Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment, Volume 76, page 41930. Proposed rule docket ID is HHS-OS-2011-0022 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-15/pdf/2011-17609.pdf
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Where does Mooshelle sit on the continuum?
Medicare beneficiaries’ medical records are already accessible by Government auditors.
How else would they have uncovered the ‘Scooter Wheeler Dealer scandal’??
All private health insurance carriers have auditors - and presently they are contracted to process claims for Medicare. How else do we learn the percentage of fraud and abuse? Someone is checking medical records for age, disorder, treatment, medications, referrals etc.,
Back when they mandated health records be converted to sharable electronic media ...I decided to stop going to the doctor at all.
Some how this does not surprise me, does not seem like new “news,” and wondering when the underground medical field starts to take hold...
The government has no need for my health records or anybody elses. Enough is enough already.
Volume 76, page 41930
There is the problem right there.
Page forty one thousand, nine hundred and thirty.
Not everyone’s records. Not Moslems. Not Congressmen
or their families. Not those who got exemptions.
See. Equality under the Law - Racist/DNC Style.
Maybe this is why my supplemental Medicare carrier is pressing me to answer a “survey” about my health. I have refused so far. So long as I’m not required to participate, they can kiss my derriere. I’m not going to be cooperative.
LOL!
I guess I’m glad to have no health records.
Sebelius needs to make her own records available to the rest of the country. Might be interesting to see when she was first diagnosed with schizophrenia and what medications she is using.
Effff that.
A scary thought is if the government were ever to apply affirmative action to who gets what treatment.
Obama does not want to show his Birth Certificate for the Presidency, but wants to ignore the privacy act and get my personal medical records?
Unreal...
If I recall correctly, that was a Bush initiative. It’s something the health care providers AND insurance companies have been pushing for years. Ins. cos. want health records online so they can pour over them and find ancient records of someone & use them to deny coverage (a statement someone made to a dr., say, 20 years ago).
I don’t like it. I think it’s horrible. Imagine if you are a young guy and get an STD. That information will follow you to the grave. All your care providers and ins. cos. from that time until your death will know about it. And then there’s the danger of hackers. You KNOW it’ll be hacked, sooner or later.
But since the insurance cos. seem to eventually get what they want, and since both Republicans and Democrat political leaders have been paid to “want” it, too...I think this will happen. It won’t be the fed, per se, that has the database. It’s supposed to be some interconnected system of health care records or something.
Its unfortunate that the Government’s intrusiveness has left so many people feeling vulnerable in the medical system.
Even more unfortunate that all these so called mandates aimed at controlling the cost perhaps deliberately ignore the core problem behind the health system causing its uncontrolled cost explosion.
Namely the socialization of its payment system. Health-insurance rather its goverment provide or private removes the consumer from the position of caring about the cost of their health care choices.
Auto insurance would have the same effect if it also payed for your car the first time, or replaced it when it suffered form wear and tear.
Its so simple and obvious its hard to beleive our politicians are oblivious to the root cause of our healthcare costs problems.
I believe that they have had access for at least the duration of Hussein’s reign, perhaps sooner. That is the only explanation for the additional forms that my Dr gave me asking about gun ownership and possible spousal abuse. I wrote in big fat letters NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS across the face of the form.
This is what I have feared about the electronic health records. I remember having a spell of anxiety during the menopause years. I was extremely stressed at work and eventually quit working there. Our group insurance guy came in after I had visited a doctor. He told me that because the doctor diagnosed me as having generalized anxiety (I told the doctor I was pretty sure it was related to menopause),I was now classified as having a mental disorder and no longer eligible for coverage. I was livid.
It is unimaginable what can be done with information like this. My doctor of twenty years gave each patient their records when he retired. Mine are on the back and front of about four large index cards which he kept in his desk. Mine are the only eyes besides his that has ever seen them. He had date, vitals, complaint, diagnosis and treatment for each visit in those 20 years. My, my, how things have changed.
me, too...about 1996-98
Here is an email that I got from a clinic I used to go to (note the race, ethnicity...):
When you visit ***********, you will be asked to complete a new “Patient Demographic Data for Meaningful Use” form. This form asks each patient to identify their race, ethnicity, and preferred language. *********** has initiated this first step in response to the Federal Governments’ Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2008. The Health IT plan is designed to allow health care providers to better manage patient care through the use of secure electronic records, while allowing health care providers, across the country, the opportunity to share and access patient health information.
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