Posted on 05/20/2014 5:53:16 PM PDT by driftdiver
The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of national security, according to Twila Brase, a public health nurse and co-founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is currently seeking public comment on a 52-page draft of the proposed “National Health Security Strategy 2015-2018” (NHSS).
The deadline for comment is 5 pm EST on May 21st. (See Draft National Health Security Strategy 2015-2018.pdf)
“Health situational awareness includes biosurveillance and other health and non-health inputs (e.g., lab/diagnostics, health service utilization, active intelligence, and supply chain information), as well as systems and processes for effective communication among responders and critical health resource monitoring and allocation,” the draft states.
But Brase warns that the NHSS proposal would allow the federal government to monitor an individual’s behavior before, during and after any government-defined health “incident” – which could be anything from a local outbreak of the flu to a terrorist anthrax attack.
“It’s very broad. It doesn’t seem to have any limits.....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Ping.
Resistance is futile.
So sayeth the Borg.
If you can find a doctor who doesn’t take insurance or medicare they might not be in this system.
So HIPAA protections are only used against those of us who work in the Medical field? Every pile of patient results must be covered with a cover sheet in case someone walking by sees a name and corresponding results. But the Govt can snoop on anyone and then blackmail them?? THIS MUST STOP!!
The DemoNazis are at it again. Whatever happened to HIPPA the Hippo and the Privacy Act? Oops sorry. That was from the time before America decided to go full commie.
I have a very bad feeling about Medicare. I will not take it.
No no, this can’t be true. I get all sorts of privacy papers saying how my privacy is most important, at the hospital and other places. /sarc
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
This is one of the many reasons I won’t go to doctors. I also don’t have the $ and have no insurance and don’t plan to get any, nor apply for medicare although I guess I’m old enough.
I don’t want them to know any more about me than they already know.
Ping.
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Revolt is near.
Try reactance. Inductive or capacitive.
Universal DNA database.
Looking at records in general, not as to any one person, could be a public health reason in order to discover if certain illnesses are up or down.
To screen records as to individuals sounds like death panel business to see if you have reached your end date as treatment would be costly should you linger.
As Breitbart warned us: WAR!
Wow...who could have seen this coming.
Of course, safeguards will be in place...severe penalties...latest in technology for encryption...only used in aggregate...
And, if you believe that $hit, I’ll tell you more!
“Looking at records in general, not as to any one person, could be a public health reason in order to discover if certain illnesses are up or down.”
They do this now. They are empowered by law to do this now for many communicable illnesses. I’d actually be in favor of this if the data was “guaranteed” to be used at a city, state, or regional level that was personally unidentifiable. Problem is, I trust them with this information less than I would trust the Chinese government or Al Quieda with it. Seriously.
“Whatever happened to HIPPA”
Oh, they have ALREADY carved out an exception to that for themselves. Check the law.
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