Posted on 01/27/2009 7:48:03 PM PST by luv2ndamend
A little-discussed provision in President Obama's economic stimulus plan would demand that every American submit to a government program for electronic medical records without a choice to opt out, and it has privacy advocates more than a little alarmed.
Patients might be alarmed, too, privacy advocates said, if they realized information such as documentation on abortions, mental health problems, impotence, being labeled as a non-compliant patient, lawsuits against doctors and sexual problems could be shared electronically with, perhaps, millions of people.
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Having the government get access to your personal medical records? Well, they're here to help, so it's OK ...
It’s for the ‘common good’!! /s
What a sick miserable world these jerks are trying to create.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Somehow the Obama people flipped it into "Electronic Medical Record", which is not how it started out when the Hildabeast announced it, or when the Algore campaigned on it.
Actually, NO ONE wants an electronic medical record accessible to the government, owned by the government, run by the government, or pawed over by government bureaucrats.
We want the government to, as I recall, STAY OUT OF BEDROOMS AND OUR BUTTS.
You forgot, that rule does not apply to him.
If you have ever had a loved one in the hospital that has stayed there more than a few days you know how big and unwieldy the stack of paperwork gets.
The chance for errors or just for nurses/doctors to give up looking through the pile of papers to see what's what with the patient is too great.
However, allowing the federal government to have access, or to try and create a way for it to be easy to transfer electronic records from hospitals to insurance companies, employers, etc. is another thing entirely.
Like every other electronic initiative of the government it will be sold for all the right reasons, but implemented for all the wrong ones.
The Commie ‘RATS want to put your medical records “online.” So much for all that HIPPA bullsh*t. Hackers and identity theives are going to eat this stuff up. It will also give the Obamacorns a new place to go where they can register deceased “voters.”
More ‘good news’. Wow, whatta difference a week makes...
Plus, I know I read somthing and can’t find it again - about Google saying computers would soon be un-needed and everything would ‘be stored on the web’.
Take away our communication? Not sure, need to find that again.
If this one aspect of the plan was broadcast on every news channel, the uproar would be tremendous. The GOP needs to use this issue as a reason to deny the plan. If they are going to be unified they need to list out a litany of reasons.
Our GOP needs to be specific and detailed if they want to win the people back.
Brings back memories of the rose law firm records and all the other records that a rat admin. had on private citizens. Wake up America.
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The High Priests will manage our programs and files for us so long as we behave and our telecom bill is paid up.
But its for the children! (how do you indicate a whiny tone in text?) :-/
Got that right. I'd like to see a 10 or 15 point program and financial support only for candidates who promise to support every single one of the points. Tell the public EXACTLY what we stand for. That's a winning strategy.
If that starts, tell your medical provider that you want all your records, X-rays, etc. to be given into your hands. That's all. All of them. You paid for them. Then just tell them you are going someplace else. Problems? Go to the emergency room like illegal aliens with nothing.
Needed drugs can be purchased on the internet. Decouple yourself from the government. Become a non-person. Just get checks.
Obama wants to create another civil war. Let him start it.
Do you know how incompetent insurance companies are with electronic record keeping? If it’s not on the computer screen, then it must not be is the motto of hospital staff and insurance company workers. Imagine how much worse government will be without accountability!
We had this happen recently with our insurance company. They blamed someone else in the chain of medical records. It turned out that the insurance company was the problem, but until we got to the root of the problem, no one believed us when we told them that we have insurance and that something had to be wrong with the insurance company’s records.
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