Posted on 08/21/2009 6:48:26 AM PDT by La Lydia
Wait till someone gets a hold of that information, like they do currently with credit card data.
Data, then anticipatory quotas, then quotas with bonuses.
Bingo. There must be 36 years of invocation of abortion as justified by the “right to privacy” and prohibition of anything that “comes between a woman and her doctor.” How that history squares with what has been proposed is a little unclear. I would expect that as Democrats move toward an actual vote on an actual final bill - there will be language inserted that provides a special set of exceptions for abortion.
This was a goal of HIPAA, past by Congress 13 years ago. You can see how far they've gotten in this grand scheme.
Many of the consultants that made huge bucks from HIPPA in the late nineties and produced practically nothing will get a second chance to draw from the well.
There is another thread on FR today that addresses this. Read the entire WaPo article that is excerpted there.
Sorry, I forgot to mention this.
In order for this nation-wide electronic medical records system to work, each patient will need a unique ID.
Can you say hello to a national ID card?* And they will, no doubt, try and stick much of your medical records on one or more magnetic stripes on the card.
The thieves, hackers and general bad guys will have a field day with this.
*The impracticality of this stymied much of what HIPAA was to become.
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