Posted on 03/22/2010 4:10:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
With the passage of the legislation letting the federal government take control of the country's medical care system, a major turning point has been reached in the dismantling of America's values and institutions.
Even the massive transfer of crucial decisions from millions of doctors and patients to Washington bureaucrats and advisory panels as momentous as that is does not measure the full impact of this largely unread and certainly unscrutinized legislation.
If the current legislation does not entail the transmission of all our individual medical records to Washington, it will take only an administrative regulation or, at most, an executive order of the president to do that.
Our New Masters
With politicians now having access to our most confidential records and having the power of granting or withholding medical care needed to sustain ourselves or our loved ones, how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?
Despite whatever "firewalls" or "lockboxes" there may be to shield our medical records from prying political eyes, nothing is as inevitable as leaks in Washington. Does anyone still remember the hundreds of confidential FBI files that were "accidentally" delivered to the White House during Bill Clinton's administration?
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>>I have a question, if a African-American was a member of the Tea Party and called an African-American congress critter the n-word, and it was caugh on the raw tape, what are the chances the MSM would crop said video when playing it back to obscure who said it?
Damn near 100%, given the recent cropping of an open-carry advocate in AZ to hide the fact that he was black while the network (CBS?) went on and on about RACIST! 2nd Amendment extremists. This is very similar to the scenario you have posited, and there is no doubt that this actually happened.
They won’t last long.
Why am I the only person mentioning the 4th Amendment?
The way this shole thing is designed will do exactly that just look at the numbers. The Democrats know exactly what they are doing
I can just imagine the day when all of the AIDS patients in California get their medical records hacked and posted on the internet.
I bet they never thought of that little bit of a problem.
Posted By: Terry_Jim(5) on 3/23/2010 | 1:35 AM ET
Next up: Amnesty: because re-electing Democrats is a job Americans just won't do.
It's sounding more and more like Sundown at Coffin Rock every day.
Thank you! I’m starting our slowly this morning with some old ‘Journey.’ :)
WOW! I SO want that on a bumper sticker!
I also like "Stupid people shouldn't breed."
A BUMP for Mr. Sowell. As always - spot on.
B4L8r
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