Posted on 01/04/2016 7:33:04 PM PST by Mariner
Delivering on its promise to deliver "common sense" gun control, the Obama administration on Monday finalized a rule that enables health care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system.
The action was one of a series of steps that President Barack Obama had called for in January 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings to curb gun violence, but the rule was not published until today.
While the 1993 Brady law prohibits gun ownership by individuals who have been involuntarily committed, found incompetent to stand trial or otherwise deemed by a court to be a danger to themselves or others, federal health care privacy rules prohibited doctors and other providers from sharing information without the consent of their patients.
Under the rule, which takes effect next month, for the first time health providers can disclose the information to the background check system without legal repercussions.
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A legitimate concern.
So any doctor can pronounce someone crazy, from a psychiatrist, to an allergist, to podiatrist, to colo-rectal surgeon?
32 years ago - the doctor has probably long since shredded the files. Don’t ask, don’t tell.
Never say anything in a doctor’s office about being depressed. Fake (if you have to) a happy attitude while there. If your foot is cut off, tell the doc that is okay, you have another one. Get the idea?
I always do. As a matter of fact, people who slow the line at the grocery check out who use their debit cards piss me off. I use cash.
The term mentally illness covers a broad area. As an example, agoraphobia as well as many other benign phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, non-clinical depression, anxiety, gambling addiction, sexual addiction, just to name a few. Interestingly, drug addiction is now considered a mental illness. We will see most doctors reporting just about everyone in order to cover themselves and avoid lawsuits, should someone go postal. This will be a mess.
LMAO. Maybe I should wear my shotgun totin’ Kurt Cobain t-shirt to the appointment...
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Everything the one has done is either unlawful, or unconstitutional.
He is pleased with your assessment.
CA already has that law?
and it was retroactive?
insanity. he’s really turning it on this year folks.
people getting sent back to jail after finishing their term.
250k fines for calling a person the gender they are.
now his.
Wait till a Christian says, “I am full of joy, I have hope, I love and want to help my fellow man, etc.”
That will certainly be called INSANE (already done in old Soviet Union).
Think that the government wants to take your guns away? Obviously paranoid, and your guns should be taken.
Think that the government doesn’t want to take your guns away? Obviously lost touch with reality, and your guns should be taken.
Those two things should cover most folks.
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Using a debit card is way faster than using cash is this post-education society.
i’m sorry, I have to say this again. 250K FINE
FOR CALLING A MAN A MAN AT WORK!!!! if he wants to be called a woman.
Dad, thank goodness you’re not around.
Not retroactive.
She came up as kind of ‘mental’ on the background check.
Oh this would never be abused.
Doctor swatting. I coined it.
It would sure be nice to have a post-stuck-up society.
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Much easier to just not go to the quacks.
Healthier for sure.
Say the proud about the shrinks.
Geez, does this mean I need to quit seeing my shrink? /s
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