The Death of Medical Privacy

American Thinker ^ | September 20, 2010 | Arie Friedman, MD

[neverdem]

It's not just "The Death of Medical Privacy," but patients won't be forthcoming and honest in divulging medical histories, so more testing will be needed to make the diagnoses. Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. It's probably loaded with more unintended consequences.

[Clintonfatigued]

Here’s another act that needs to be repealed.

[Clintonfatigued]

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[Vince Ferrer]

paragraph (D) authorizes the Secretary of HHS to obtain any additional information whatsoever if it fulfills the purpose of investigating health "disparities." Nowhere in this section is there an actual definition of "health disparities." As a result, one can begin to get a picture of the limitlessness of this mandate.

What if the government will not pay for a certain procedure or drug for you, so you pay it in cash. Would that be a disparity? If so, what is the penalty?

[ExTexasRedhead]

Makes all the privacy BS one has to sign at their doctor’s office a JOKE!!!!

Big Brother wants to decide if you live or die based on the information they collect (religion, age, ..... Sound like Germany 1933 yet???

[lovesdogs]

It's not just "The Death of Medical Privacy," but patients won't be forthcoming

No kidding. My dr's office personnel handed me a new form last week. It included some reasonable questions that had already been asked and answered. But some new ones were: Do you use seat belts?, have you ever used illegal drugs?, is there abuse in your home?, and the real kicker...are there guns in your home? I would not answer any of these questions and wrote a great big THIS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS on the form.

My Dr explained that the government is forcing them to ask a certain amount of questions off of a list. She told me that the ones they selected were the least intrusive. Apparently the questions that they declined to ask were even worse. I am very hesitant about what I will and will not tell her from now on out. If there is even the tiniest risk of public disclosure, who in the world will be totally frank with a medical provider?

[hal ogen]

Make up weird data for them on things that are irrelevant for your medical visit. Screw with the system. It is OK to lie to a tyrannical government.

[onedoug]

DEATH PANELS

[SaraJohnson]

You now have to know that the government is in the examining room with you when you go to the doctor. Any notes they take become a part of your record and the government has ordered records be computerized and open to the government.

So...all of us will be angels and doctors will be “baffled” as to why we are ill.

[itsahoot]

Would that be a disparity? If so, what is the penalty?

That is the cool part, whatever the regulatory agency that hasn't yet been appointed, says it is.

[chris_bdba]

Did this overturn HIPAA or does this violate that law?

[GailA]

OBAMACARE MEDICINE KIT

[arkady_renko]

i) under privacy protections that are at least as broad as those that the Secretary applies to other health data under the regulations promulgated under section 264(c) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191; 110 Stat. 2033); and

[bamahead]

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[neverdem]

Did this overturn HIPAA or does this violate that law?

I don't know, but being a thousand or two thousand plus pages long, I won't be surprised if parts are in conflict.

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[oprahstheantichrist]

Thanks for the ping. This is the guy I voted for in the primaries, IL 10th district. He didn’t win, sadly.

[bert]

Death should be provided for those who wrote this monstrosity of liberty killing tyranny. Absent severe and memorable punishment, it will never completely go away. It is now precedent to be referred to forever by the tyrants who survive the coming war

[FreedomPoster]

I would expect that many parts are in conflict with HIPAA.

Of course, you won’t have standing to argue for your own medical privacy, and/or the question will get decided by activist statist judges.

[CSM]

Yep, the dems (libtards) have effectively legislated away Roe. The libtard followers that celebrate murdering the unborn are celebrating their legislating control over my physical being while handing us the tools to make any “medical procedure” illegal.

Dolts.