Posted on 10/16/2011 8:01:30 AM PDT by matthewreporter
The Obama administration adamantly denies it, but rumors are circulating in Washington that his Department of Health and Human Services is already collecting Americans’ private health information, or at least preparing itself to do so.
Rep. Denny Rehberg, the chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services and Education formalized the rumors by asking about them in a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Thursday.
“Specifically, I have been told that HHS has already procured a contractor to build a database and that this contractor has already taken steps to acquire personal health care data from a large claims database,” Rehberg wrote. “I would like to know if these reports are, in fact, true. If so, it would represent an egregious violation of the privacy rights that the American public rightfully demands.”
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the creeping crud of gubmint eats all in its path...and more...
Of course he is, why do you think every thing goes on to the computer now. When we go to the doc’s office, in comes the lap top with him.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Notes On The Right to Be Left AloneThe General Electric Corporation is now running ads (heard on WABC Radio) bragging about how they're building a comprehensive, global database of individual medical records ("for ever person on the planet"). We recall wondering what sort "stimulus" would be in the cards for giant GE when we saw pictures of its CEO Jeffrey Immelt hanging out with President Obama last year.
And you know once the O gets a hold of your records his death panels will use them to determine your worth for future treatment.
Oh, I don't know. That guy with the laptop might just be a moolighting fireman. These days, the computer is the doctor.
From Voice Mail Hell to Flash Crashes: Now Your Doctor is a Computer Algorithm...if WellPoint is the provider of your government-mandated health insurance and, as the nations largest such entity, it likely is. Here's the press release as it appeared in something called "Business and Health":...WellPoint said it plans to use Watson's data-crunching to help suggest treatment options and diagnoses to doctors, which is part of a general trend for incorporating computer-influenced supervision into care. Insurers say the procedure would ensure that doctors and hospitals who adopt electronic medical records and other digital tools will be capable of recording, tracking and checking their work. The company added that they hope the technology will ...reduce costs."Imagine having the ability within three seconds to look through all of that information...at the moment you're caring for that patient," WellPoint's chief medical officer, Dr. Sam Nussbaum, told the Associated Press.To paraphrase a visionary from another era, "Imagine there's no doctor..."
I just hate it when I go to the doctor and they are spending all the time inputting everything I say into the computer.
He can see mine, when I can see his!
If you wanted to hold each and every American by the short and curlies for the purposes of blackmail, you’d be hard pressed to find a more effective way than to archive all medical records in one gigantic database. The potential for abuse should make everyone’s hair stand on end.
...and to determine if you should be able to purchase a firearm.
which is why I say, “death to databases.”
Well of course they are. That part wasn’t in the 0bamacare Act...it was in one of the stimulus bills. They’ve been hiring like crazy for people to begin loading hospital records into the database for months now.
It is why I refuse to go see a doctor now.
I can see it now. Government health care will review your records and you will be limited to 2 visits a year. Good luck old timers.
Why do doctors want to know if we have guns in our houses?
bump health care via govt
What the Republicans need right now is a list of things the current administration is doing that they promise to end, completely and finally, when elected. As part of their personal agenda, and there can be considerable variation between candidates.
My own list for Republican candidates for president would be as follows, with about half that can be done by presidential decree, and the other half that they can do with the help of congress.
1) Kill Obamacare dead. Fini. Kaput. Outta there dead. No vestiges left of it including those bureaucrats hired to enforce it. All databases ordered destroyed, and the complete repeal of the HIPPA Act.
2) Excepting national “crown jewel” parks, the return of ALL federal lands taken from the individual States, excepting Indian reservations and military reservations.
3) Return to the States the authority to permit mining and drilling in their lands, as long as no pollution crosses State lines.
4) Remove the authority of the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide.
5) Eliminate the entire Department of Education.
6) The FDA and USDA shall be stripped of the authority to regulate intrastate foods and drugs, and will only provide advice to the States on what they think they States should regulate.
7) Elimination of all federal marijuana laws excepting the transfer of marijuana across national borders. No regulation of hemp at all.
8) Privatization of the TSA. Let airports and airlines make their own determination of the level of security they need.
9) Make federal warrantless searches and violent, no-knock searches mutually exclusive, and for use only against terrorists and armed & dangerous criminals. Without a warrant, searches must be non-violent. Violent, no-knock searches can only be performed with a court warrant.
10) All non-criminal federal databases that contain personal information of citizens beyond a given minimum, must be kept by a single agency. All other agencies may only be provided “need to know” information, previously determined, and will have a maximum length of time in which they can store such information before it must be destroyed. This should go hand-in-hand with a national privacy act concerning the private or corporate possession of personal information about citizens.
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