And the government has no right to keep such a very private database. . .what next, questions about political affiliation? And to what end beyond this debacle? Selling information, leaking potential embarrassing information, “no expectation of privacy” I think I recall reading is in the computer code of this program.
It is a danger to our freedoms and security to allow the federal government to amass such detailed personal data on a free people.
I shouldn’t be surprised, after all , this is the same government that has the Census asking the same level of detail (if not more); the ACS (American Community Survey).
The demographic information they gather serves as a proxy for this, probably with 90% accuracy.
You will be given or denied care based on your political affiliation, and that is the goal of socialized healthcare.
Well, I guess the question regarding the applicant's ethnicity would answer a rather large part of that.