Will Health Care Reform Bring the End of Financial Privacy?

The following language appears on pages 57-58 of the House health care bill. Cavuto will be talking about it tomorrow on his 4 pm EST FOX News show.

(a) STANDARDS FOR FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSACTIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall adopt and regularly update standards consistent with the goals described in paragraph (2).
(2) GOALS FOR FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSACTIONS.—The goals for standards under paragraph (1) are that such standards shall— ....

(D) enable the real-time (or near real time) determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service and, to the extent possible, prior to service, including whether the individual is eligible for a specific service with a specific physician at a specific facility, which may include utilization of a machine-readable health plan beneficiary identification card;

Does this sound like the health care system is going to have access to your financial info?

Not really. Its more likely boilerplate language that will link service to an ID card which will also link to the heralded health database. Remember, everyone pays $2500, or something like that, except illegals, or those the government decides to give the money back to. Maybe there will be a co-pay also.

The Health ID card might become a backdoor national ID, though.

I suggest everyone close all bank accounts except one. I suggest keeping only a very small amount of money in the one open account. So that you can write some checks for things you might have to write checks for.

Invest in a good fireproof safe, build a secure area in your house (beef up a closet, build a bsmt room for important things, etc) and be your own bank from now on. this way when the banks are closed (if a holiday is called) you’ll have cash on hand to pay for things you need quickly.

Hildy, you're not correct when you say "Roe v. Wade establishes the Constitutional right to have medical decisions be private.”

The Ninth and Tenth Amendments cover that. The "hitch" is that abortion is not, properly speaking, medical care.

Medical care is about the cure of disease, the healing of injury, the restoration of normal function and the preservation of life. Abortion cures nothing, heals nothing, imposes an abnormality (miscarriage) and deliberately kills one of the patients (the child.)

Therefore Roe vs Wade does not protect medical privacy but advances the "right" of the government to authorize the termination of somebody who has not committed a capital offense.

Choice? Prescinding from the fact that the baby has no choice, the woman likewise is manipulated. Why does the abortion industry always oppose informed consent laws?

Planned Parenthood admits that over 98% of the women who receive "counseling" from PP choose, not childbirth, not adoption, but abortion. That's not counseling: that's marketing.

And government agencies funded Planned Parenthood to the tune of $350 million last year alone! It's not "privacy": it's the government, through its contractees, suborning an individual to commit homicide.

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