Another IRS scandal: agents illegally seized 60 million medical records

Illinois Review ^ | May 16, 2013

[KeyLargo]

Thursday, May 16, 2013 May 16, 2013 Another IRS scandal: agents illegally seized 60 million medical records

Image009And as if there's not already an abundance of problems at the IRS, another one erupts, involving 60 million private medical records of 10 million patients - including all California state judges - from Healthcare IT News:

The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges.

According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is suing the IRS, alleging that some 60 million medical records from 10 million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents. The personal health information seized on March 11, 2011, included psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual/drug treatment and other medical treatment data.

[KeyLargo]

[relictele]

[blackdog]

Repeal Obamacare now. It’s mechanisms for administration and enforcement are worse than Tony Soprano.

[MrB]

The goal of Obamacare should be clear to everyone now.

Just as the IRS, the enforcement agent of Obamacare, delayed, denied, and harassed conservatives seeking legal 501(c)4 status,

the IRS will deny and delay medical care for conservatives.

[KeyLargo]

A Ben & Jerry’s flavor we might actually buy… May 15, 2013

If it were only real…

In the meantime, we don’t buy B&J.

Via Guns Save Life.com

[kevinm13]

The IRS will be responsible for “enforcing” 0bamacare. Nothing including medical records will be safe or private..

[Diogenesis]

”ANYONE who deems this more than 'transparency'
will be audited and Deathpaneled."

[taildragger]

Repeal Obamacare now. It’s mechanisms for administration and enforcement are worse than Tony Soprano.

That is correct, Mobsters @ a bar having diner can yuk it up and be fun. My guess is these people are completey humorless...

[old curmudgeon]

Not only that:

Imagine the potential for blackmail.

“If you run for office, we will......”

“If you don’t vote for.......”

[Graewoulf]

Impeachment File on B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the sovereign Nation of Indonesia.

[JoeProBono]

[blackdog]

I never though hemorhoids could be a political weapon?

[Travis McGee]

[Hotlanta Mike]

Fifteen “rogue” agents? I suspect they were just following orders by their bosses.

With all this criminal activity that has taken place in our government the past 4+ years we are going to have to start building more federal prisons. They can even build a West Wing for future occupant Mr. Preezy himself.

[blackdog]

Imagine Pauly Walnuts coming to collect your “copay” every election while you are waiting for a knee?

[JPG]

Obama and his cronies (wink) had absolutely nothing (wink) to do with the IRS targeting (wink) conservatives (wink, wink).

[KeyLargo]

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Obamacare Is About Power

By Jim DeMint -

Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the House voted to repeal the law last year, some commentators and observers have questioned the need for another repeal vote.

However, the scandals coming to light over the last week perfectly make the case for why Congress must eradicate the law from the statute books.

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/

[Hotlanta Mike]

Did the IRS give Mitt Romney’s tax returns to Harry Reid?

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/did-the-irs-give-romneys-tax-returns-to-harry-reid/

[KeyLargo]

“This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by several Internal Revenue Service agents,” the complaint reads.

“No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the scene, a HIPAA facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records,” it continued.

The claim asserts that the IRS agents’ seizure of medical records violated the 4th Amendment.

“These medical records contained intimate and private information of more than 10,000,000 Americans, information that by its nature includes information about treatment for any kind of medical concern, including psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual or drug treatment, and a wide range of medical matters covering the most intimate and private of concerns,” the complaint states.

“Despite knowing that these medical records were not within the scope of the warrant, defendants threatened to ‘rip’ the servers containing the medical data out of the building if IT personnel would not voluntarily hand them over,” the complaint reads.

Read more at:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/05/15/the-irs-raids-60-million-personal-medical-records/

[Paladin2]

"By October 2010, the Internal Revenue Service had the capability to sift through emailing patterns associated with millions of individual internet addresses and have already established 32,000 categories of metadata and 1 million unique “attributes.” The IRS continues to collect tax data, but they also are now acquiring huge volumes of personal information on taxpayers’ digital activities, from eBay auctions to Facebook posts and, for the first time ever, credit card and e-payment transaction records. Dean Silverman, who led the IBM zEnterprise™ 196 systems upgrade bragged: “Private industry would be envious if they knew what our models are.” "

Just part of the plan.