Posted on 01/10/2017 5:44:09 AM PST by Kaslin
When ObamaCare was first promulgated, my fine HMO doctor called it quits. MDs who hate the New Medicine talk about it very quietly, if at all, and mostly among themselves. Shutting up the medical profession was the first order of business for the Left establishment, and they were duly scapegoated in the Fakestream Media.
Like most of you, I assumed that all those HIPAA forms they made me sign over the years actually meant what they said they meant. About medical privacy and such.
So, it came as a surprise to me when I called another doc's office and a lisping Valley Girl who answered the phone demanded to know my private information. What were her qualifications, I asked? Didn't I sign that darned HIPAA thing to protect my private medical info?
Valley Girl said nothing about any medical qualification, and she sounded like a fresh new graduate of the local high school or community college. But she insisted politely that I had no HIPAA protection in my medical phone call.
Then I called her manager, who agreed that I have no HIPAA protections in Obama's Brave New World. I called my doc, who agreed I have no privacy protections left. Then I called a medical friend, who tells me she's been complaining about that for six months.
But nobody told you or me.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I keep meaning to file with Tricare Overseas, but I am having issues accessing the site.
That nasal steroid costs $120 here.
ITEM---- The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest. Egged on by Pelosi, no one in Congress told Americans about Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).
In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion and in 2015 and on, $2 billion.
The reasons for all those O/Care delays, fixits, exemptions, waivers, extensions, etc, are becoming crystal clear.
ITEM--How $4.3 billion tax dollars to then-Sen Mary Landrieu (Dem-LA) was attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Harry Reid failed to catch and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity. The payoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare.
BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. Reid needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage.
In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied--- Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare---but $4.3 went to Landrieu not the $200,000 she had bargained for.
<><> Was Mary the baglady for buying the other senators aye votes?
THE LANDRIEU PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Landrieu sold her aye vote for a "price." Landrieu was bought off in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu.
FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount.
MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN---REQUEST DETAILED TAX OUTLAYS FOR OBAMACARE--All tax allocations are explicitly detailed in the Congressional Record as to their use and limitations, etc.
(1) throwing Americans off affordable health plans,
(2) nationalizing 1/6 of the US economy,
3) installing IPAB's (healthcare rationing---death panels),
(4) decimating intergenerational transfers of wealth (grandma/pa's holdings go to the govt---not to Americans),
(5) pulling $750 billion out of Medicare,
(6) drug-rationing---death panels,
(8) abandoning seniors and the chronically ill,
(9) forcing healthy young Americans to subsidize healthcare for the elderly.
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REMINDER When Dummycrats had the chance to help Americans hang onto affordable care, they voted AGAINST Sen Mike Enzi's 2010 bill which helped Americans keep their existing plans.
There was a time when HIPAA ruled. In the medical laboratory, we actually had to cover any piece of paper that had patient info on it, in case someone walked by our desk and glanced down and could read the info. We had to close our computer page if it had any patient info, every time we got up from our desk. Then came Obamacare and ALL your medical info was required to go into the National database. Ostensibly so it could be easily checked to make sure no one would prescribe a med that might interact badly with another on of your meds. I was thinking ‘who doesn’t realize that this will go into Obama’s meta-data info bank out in Nevada, for use in the future should you become a ‘problem’ to the powers that be’. Obama has destroyed the best medical care system in the world. We cannot get the info back into the hands of those who respect people’s privacy. Prayers that Trump can at least get us back to a place where hard working Americans can actually afford their medical care again.
I know a doctor who keeps two sets of records. One on the echart and one written with private info to protect her patients’ privacy.
More should do that imo
Usually a “Fellow” at a teaching hospital is someone who has finished their residency, and is getting additional specialized training, and yes they are licensed MDs. Doesn’t excuse not having a bedside manner, but not a violation of the law.
Thailand?
A glass of Mekong with Lipo should clear that sinus problem right up.
Wait 5 minutes, if it doesn’t work, try one more.
Really? I got the same spray (I think) through my insurance for about twenty bucks.
One thing that you can do in Thailand is by-pass the doctor and go direct to the pharmacy. Tell them your issues and they will provide the medicine. I did that for years before my Tricare kicked in.
Some personal issues I have had with HIPAA:
1. In 2003, my son was killed in an automobile accident. The accident circumstances were suspicious. ALL details were denied to me because “under HIPAA, only he could give permission for me to see the records.” They still are sealed.
2. When the conflict between HIPAA and DeathCare became aware, I called Social Security, Medicare and my brain dead Congressional delegation. I pointed out that the conflicts and asked which law they would follow. No answers, but the Social Security lady admitted that there was a problem and didn’t know how to handle it.
As for silence in the face of the regime jackboots, that is the WORST alternative. Confrontation will destroy their facade of invincibility.
If your son was a minor you had the right. Also, once dead, HIPPA isn’t relevant and as his father, something ain’t right.
Sorry for your loss.
Had a similar administrative hurdle once. Before the USA ever heard the words SINGLE PAYER.... I was told I couldn’t get some reports regarding family members because I wasn’t “THE PAYER.” Tricare was “the payer.”
They didn’t care that I was the parent.
There was a time when HIPAA ruled. In the medical laboratory, we actually had to cover any piece of paper that had patient info on it, in case someone walked by our desk and glanced down and could read the info. We had to close our computer page if it had any patient info, every time we got up from our desk.
nothing has changed rules still apply. steep fines for HIPPA violations
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