Posted on 05/20/2014 5:53:16 PM PDT by driftdiver
The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of national security, according to Twila Brase, a public health nurse and co-founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is currently seeking public comment on a 52-page draft of the proposed “National Health Security Strategy 2015-2018” (NHSS).
The deadline for comment is 5 pm EST on May 21st. (See Draft National Health Security Strategy 2015-2018.pdf)
“Health situational awareness includes biosurveillance and other health and non-health inputs (e.g., lab/diagnostics, health service utilization, active intelligence, and supply chain information), as well as systems and processes for effective communication among responders and critical health resource monitoring and allocation,” the draft states.
But Brase warns that the NHSS proposal would allow the federal government to monitor an individual’s behavior before, during and after any government-defined health “incident” – which could be anything from a local outbreak of the flu to a terrorist anthrax attack.
“It’s very broad. It doesn’t seem to have any limits.....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Our doctor can’t email or fax blood work to us but some gubment employee can see it at any time. Oh, that’s right. National security. Got it.
Completely unnecessary urgency. This is all police/agent of Obama state brutality.
My comment would have to be censured. It's none of the government's business if I have an ingrown toe nail or a brain tumor. Unless I've contracted some highly contagious deadly disease originating from some turd world hell hole, my medical information should be private.
I can hear Obama now. “If you haven’t donw anything wrong, there’s nothing to worry about. And I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to hear about this.”
You’ll like this one Lucy...
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner!
How better to sort the Overlords from the genetic chaff?
(So the "chaff" can be winnowed...)
Adolph would have loved this stuff.
Anyway, FORWARD! to the master race...(/S)
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