MN healthcare mandate alert

citizens council on healthcare ^ | 3-1-10 | twila brase

[WOBBLY BOB]

Rep. Tom Huntley (D-Duluth) will try to mandate that every person's medical record be placed online and made available to state government, researchers, federal government and others. All without your consent.

[WOBBLY BOB]

If this bill, HF 3279, becomes law, it will likely means:

1) The complete end of medical privacy 2) No access to a new and fresh second opinion 3) State and federal tracking and control of medical decisions through financial penalties and threat of discipline. 4) Patients become subjects of government and other research without their consent 5) Patient data will be linked to the NHIN (National Health Information Network to be created with $20 billion in stimulus grants) 6) Medical record will become a lifelong linked record of your personal, medical and mental health history - no place to run, no place to hide. 7) MN Dept of Health would get expedited rule-making to prevent CCHC from forcing them to hold a public hearing.

[Cyber Ninja]

Starting with Barry?

Birth certificates are medical records you know...

[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t see how Minnesota can enact a state law which overturns the federal HIPAA statute

[WOBBLY BOB]

Also today-Rep. Diane Loeffler (D-Mpls), brings a bill to create a central registry of all patients treated or admitted with traumatic injuries. HF 3098 will establish a statewide government trauma database for research and the tracking and monitoring of patients. What this will mean:

1) All patients with Traumatic Brain, Spinal Cord, Work-Related, Burn, Firearm, Fireworks and Trauma injuries will be databased and tracked by the government.
2) Patient consent will specifically not be required.
3) Information on the individual (name, address, etc), time and location of injury, condition of the person, and treatment, diagnosis and other medical conditions, outcome and disposition, and “other information required by the Commissioner” will be reported to the State and databased.
4) Reporters of the data are specifically made immune to liability (lawsuits from you)
5) Patient data will be used for government and other research without consent.

COMMITTEE AGENDA
TUESDAY, March 2, 2010
*** Note: *** Change in meeting time
3:15 PM
Meeting Time Note: The committee will recess and reconvene at 6:30 PM in room 200
Room: 200 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Paul Thissen
Bill(s) Added
Agenda:
HF2995 (Tillberry) Diagnosis qualifications of attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder expanded.
HF2969 (Ruud) Health licensing technical provisions modified.
HF1503 (Abeler) Massage therapist licensure and fees established, and penalties provided.
HF3088 (Hayden) Children and family service technical and policy provisions changed, Minnesota family investment program and adult supports provisions changed, and child welfare provisions changed.
HFXXXX (Abeler) Licensing provisions modified
HF3279 (Huntley) Electronic health record technology
HF3098 (Loeffler) Statewide trauma system provisions modified.
HF3019 (Hayden) Protecting Children and Strengthening Families Act created, report required, and money appropriated.
HF3039 (Hayden) Driver’s license requirements modified for foster children, in-court reviews required, and definition of parent expanded for child protection proceedings.
HF3046 (Ruud) Birthing centers licensure established.
HF3059 (Ruud) Pregnant women mandatory reporting requirements modified.
HF2938 (Thissen) Persons with disabilities licensure programs and provisions modified.
HF3086 (Thissen) Access to health records provided to surviving domestic partners, and domestic partners included in provisions governing health care rights, consent to autopsies, and anatomical gifts.
HF2959 (Lesch) Sick leave for certain workers standards established, civil penalties provided, and rulemaking required.

*HF3019 is informational only
*HF2995, HF2969, and HF1503 are division reports. No testimony will be taken.

Kate Perushek
Committee Administrator
Health Care and Human Services Policy
and Oversight Committee
Minnesota House of Representatives
353A State Office Building
(651) 296-3244

[DManA]

Here's the bill - I agree, awful: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H3279.0.html&session=ls86 For instance: "Certified electronic health record technology" means an 1.10electronic health record that is certified pursuant to section 3001(c)(5) of the HITECH 1.11Act to meet the standards and implementation specifications adopted under section 3004 1.12as applicable.

Question, will complying with this certification process make health care more or less expensive?

[WOBBLY BOB]

more...how could it not?

more employees for AFSME.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Start with all the sealed private information on the Fuhrer and then open up all private information on every member of Congress.

[ExTexasRedhead]

These vermin make Hitler look meek.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The best health care in the world trashed!

[johniegrad]

Does this have something to do with trying to limit Worker’s Compensation cases?

[stephenjohnbanker]

I wonder how many drunks alone that we will find ;-)

[DManA]

EVERYTHING government at all levels does is increasing the cost of health care, and NOT IMPROVING IT. It is unbelievable how many regulatory hoops health care facilities already have to jump through. Whole departments are dedicated only to this. Does NOTHING but HURT patient care. And now they want to lard on more?

[null and void]

These vermin make Hitler look meek.

Not yet, not yet...

[blackdog]

So who gets to be exempt?

[frposty]

Another question: will it make healthcare better?

[WOBBLY BOB]

if be better you mean more gubermint control, YES.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Well, legislators, I assume.

[massgopguy]

This violates HIPPA.

[ExTexasRedhead]

I’m sure they have far worse dirt than drinking.

[Logical me]

Any doubt that the takeover of the Country is by hard core communists. Most democrats are communists leaning jackasses. Socialists is not enough of a title.