Posted on 01/05/2016 1:04:07 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Look at this. Right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Politico: "Doctors Can Report Some Mentally Ill Patients to FBI Under New Gun Control Rule -- 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. ... 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."
But now if a doctor thinks that you're wacko, they gotta call the FBI. What do you think the doctors in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, are gonna do now? Have you seen that Making a Murderer? People have got to watch this. If I start talking about it, it will be spoiler after spoiler after spoiler. The only thing I'm gonna tell you is when you watch it -- and you will watch it -- the Avery family and friends. Don't forget this. The Avery family and friends, exactly what Washington elites think of you bitter clingers.
That's who they think you are. All of you. All of you pro-lifers. All of you common, ordinary, everyday conservatives, that's who they think you are. And I'm not exaggerating. That's who they think you are. IQs of 70, incest. I'm gonna stop there. Don't want to go anymore with spoiler alerts. So now remember what I told you way, way, way back in the early days of Obamacare and the debate, before it became law via budget reconciliation. Don't forget that, either.
Obamacare became law without one Republican vote. It was done in budget reconciliation, the only trick they would come up with to get it passed. This is a real scary thing. Empowering doctors to report anybody they think is mentally ill to the FBI? How many of you, you all have a family out there, there's at least one in your family you think's nuts, right? Some of you have even more than one that you think is nuts. Some of you have people in your own family you would commit if you could. As Ross Perot once famously said, "We've all got the crazy aunt up in the attic, Larry."
Well, now some doctor, almost responsible and required to report the mentally disturbed person to the FBI. When the government has complete control of your health care, they own you. And that's why Obama and the left want and wanted socialized medicine. 'Cause once they have that, they can control everything you do. They can control what you eat. They can control every aspect of your life, because they can assign a financial value to it, thereby claim that the way you live is high risk and deny you health coverage.
So you have to change the way you live, change the things you do in order to qualify. They've got you by the shorts, folks, and this is exactly why they want it. It isn't about better health. It isn't about treatment. It isn't about affordable insurance. It's about total control of the country. So here comes an executive order empowering, requiring doctors to report mentally ill people to the FBI. And then what? What happens then? Well, the FBI can do whatever they want. Whatever they come in and do, how you gonna stop 'em? It's the FBI, for crying out loud. Federal law enforcement. What are you gonna do? You are under their power at that point.
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RUSH: This doctors reporting patients who are mentally ill jogged my memory. So I went to the encyclopedia of the World Wide Web, and that's RushLimbaugh.com. My website is a veritable encyclopedia, especially about items discussed on this program. Lo and behold, you knew this all sounded familiar. Back on January 16th of 2013 (it's almost three years ago), I predicted this vis-a-vis Obamacare, because three years ago we reported on the story that the Regime or the administration had deputized gun-snitch doctors.
This story three years ago was about doctors, under the tenets of Obamacare... If you were listening, you'll remember this. Doctors were being ordered, instructed to talk to patients and get information from them about gun ownership, where the guns are in their house if they have them, who has access to the guns in their house, and where the ammunition is kept. Three years ago, doctors were told (quote, "permitted") to do this. Doctors were permitted to ask their patients these questions about guns. It essentially is deputizing doctors as agents of the state.
So I knew that Obama using doctors rang a bell.
I knew remembered this.
And, lo and behold, that's what I remembered. That's what we found with a scan of RushLimbaugh.com three years ago. So now, today, Obama is allowing and even demanding that doctors report mentally ill patients to the FBI. You know this is a common tactic in communist and totalitarian countries. It was famously used in the Soviet Union. It's still used in Cuba, and it is used in communist China. The way it works is, anybody that disagrees with the regime is labeled mentally ill or can be labeled mentally ill if they express a point of view that objects to the ruling government's point of view.
I'll give you a great example. That would be climate change. You have no doubt heard all of the vitriol and anger aimed at people who don't believe in man-made global warming; they're called "deniers." Others on the left have proposed that they be shut up, that they be denied the opportunity to speak and comment on various websites like Facebook, Twitter, you name it. It's not a stretch for someone to claim they are mentally ill. "They do not understand. They pose a great risk to their neighborhoods and their communities and the world because they don't understand the dangers of climate change.
"That is a mental illness." You get a doctor to claim somebody who thinks that climate change is no big deal, is mentally ill, and who knows what can happen to 'em? They'll commit them or whatever and get them out of the circulation of the mainstream. Do not think this is beyond the stretch of the imagination. This is who these people are. Remember, they're not interested in debating anybody. They're not interested in a debate in the arena of ideas with public opinion determining the winner.
There is no alternative point of view, and there should not be one that's justified and permitted, as far as radical leftists are concerned. So it's not a stretch here. So you go from three years ago to doctors being permitted, as part of Obamacare... This is part of qualifying for Obamacare. Doctors ask you where your guns are in your house, where the ammo is, how hard is it to get to the guns that you have, and they must report that. Now doctors can report anybody they claim to be mentally ill, to the FBI.
What do you think's gonna happen to a doctor...? Let's just pick one. Doctor Snerdley decides to inform the FBI that some patient of his who happens to be a political opponent of the Regime is mentally ill. Do you think that doctor might be rewarded somehow, for getting an enemy of the state off the street by reporting them as mentally ill? It's not far beyond what is legitimately possible here. And I know most people, when presented with what I've just described, say, "Come on, Rush! Don't be silly. That's absolutely stupid, ridiculous, would never happen."
Well, 20 years ago, 25 years ago there are things that are routine today that everybody back then thought would never happen. Today they're routine. So don't say that they could never happen. The fact of the matter is, there's a political party today that wants things like this to happen. They're beginning to happen. What are you...? A doctor can report mentally ill people to the FBI. For crying out loud, doctors can take surveys of their patients on gun control, gun ownership and so forth and so on.
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RUSH: Try this headline, Washington Free Beacon: "Obama: I’m ‘Confident’ My Gun Control Measures Won’t Violate Second Amendment." Really? You are confident? Isn't that something that either is or isn't? Either violates it or it doesn't. What do you mean, you're confident? You're gonna wait for some judicial review panel to decide? It means it's up for grabs? Which means he is violating the Constitution, the Second Amendment, and is happy to be doing so. That's the whole point of the Obama administration to blow up that document. The whole point of the Obama administration is to render the Constitution something akin to a relic that's out of touch and no longer relevant. There's no question that's the purpose of this administration, when you get right down to it.
Greetings, and welcome back, folks, great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882, e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Did you see the story out of California that came with the dawn of the new year? California, governor Jerry Brown signed it into law, just enacted and signed into law legislation that allows family members to report unstable gun owner relatives to the police. And then when that happens, the police have to come and take that person's guns away from them. So in California it's been signed into law. Family members are now allowed, quote, unquote, to report unstable gun owner relatives. So if you happen to live in a family that's mostly lib and you're a conservative and you've got guns, they can report you as unstable. And the definition of your instability is that you have a gun. And at that point the cops are required to pay you a visit.
Meanwhile, the attorney general Loretta Lynch has received a letter from John Culberson, Republican, Texas, member of the House. He's chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department. He has warned Loretta Lynch against enforcing Obama's new gun laws. Regulations, I should say. He said: "I have formally notified Attorney General Lynch that I will aggressively protect our Second Amendment rights using Congress' power of the purse. I notified the attorney general that if the Department of Justice attempted to create new restrictions on our Constitutional rights that I would use every tool at my disposal to immediately restrict their access to federal funding."
In other words, he said he's gonna use the power of the purse. It means he's gonna defund or hold up the Department of Justice budget. Now, this is a Republican. His name again is John Culberson. We have to keep in mind here that the threat might well be empty, given -- I mean, the Republican leadership, the media goes crazy on this, they might withdraw it, but at least Congressman Culberson has at least advanced the idea that with this Regime overreach, it's entirely possible he could lead an effort to restrict the full funding of the budget of the Department of Justice.
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It was Vladimir Lenin who said that the key to marxism is medicine.
Yeah, like, WTF? I’m a physician. Do I need to have a hot line to the feds and report anyone who is having a bad hair day? Am I legally liable if I don’t report everyone? Anyone? Could there possibly be a more inept EO? And what about the damn Hippocratic Oath? Can an EO override that, too?
Interesting. As a doctor, If you report one of your patients and they get committed or worse, wouldn’t that open you up state libel laws if the “illness” is conservatism?
Theoretically no, not if I’m a functionary of the State. I just did not realize I was a deputized functionary of the State until today. I wonder if they will give me a badge or something...
I can leave my doctor.
The irony is that I fear only one of my patients as a potential shoot-em up gunman...and he’s a raging liberal who writes scathing Commie boilerplate creed to the local newspaper about once a year. He’ll get a kick out of being reported to the FBI, I’m sure.
What Hippocratic Oath?
Rest assured, the incentive for patients with real mental health to forgo treatment has never been higher.
1. Do away with Doctors all together, if they don't comply or if their patients don't answer....
2. Do away with health care all together, no doctors around to practice medicine anymore...
3. obuma just declared America as a Hitler run Country...
If you do, that person is disarmed upon your diagnosis, and then that person is unable to defend herself and dies, I'd hope to hell the family sues that physician.
Imagine being in court to testify: "Doctor, are you a psychiatrist?"
Done.
So much for doctor/patient confidentially.
Never mind, laws are for peons.
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Be careful if someone actually tries to enforce that s***-it sounds like a future gift to attorneys, and a way to raise your malpractice insurance to epic levels.
I’m not a doc and I’m a natural remedies only person, so I don’t see one unless I’m injured-but I was a workers comp case manager till 2003 when every injured person started to get an ambulance chaser and to sue every company for damages-and I’m glad I don’t do that any more-I’d probably end up being sued for telling/not telling anyone if I thought a client was unhinged-it is a no-win scenario...
I hope we can clean DC and get rid of all this F’ed up mess in a few months...
HIPAA does not assure your PHI data confidentiality.
1. HIPAA does not protect your personal health information from being gang-raped by 8000+ different Healthcare entities.
Sharing YOUR patient Healthcare records is a 2+ Billion dollar a year business.
Data brokers share every detail about patients without rigorous requirement to ensure patient data identity anonymization.
See Harvard’s: thedatamap.org for details.
2. Obola signed an Exec Order in Sept 2015 to create an interagency Behavioral Database Stazi dossier of all citizens.
(To better serve us, of course).
3. All Internet service providers, cellphone companies, Silicon valley app corporations provide user records to federal government law enforcement, security intelligence agencies.
FReepers will be in good company on the flashbang SWAT RED list ;n)
Isn't this the very definition of a "Bill of Attainder"?...
The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 provides that: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed." Bill of Attainder Definition: A legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial.
Gun control was “baked in the cake” with Obamacare.
And, lo and behold, that’s what I remembered. That’s what we found with a scan of RushLimbaugh.com three years ago. So now, today, Obama is allowing and even demanding that doctors report mentally ill patients to the FBI. You know this is a common tactic in communist and totalitarian countries. It was famously used in the Soviet Union. It’s still used in Cuba, and it is used in communist China.
The way it works is, anybody that disagrees with the regime is labeled mentally ill or can be labeled mentally ill if they express a point of view that objects to the ruling government’s point of view.
I’ll give you a great example. That would be climate change.
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RUSH WAS RIGHT! Obama DEPUTIZING Doctors As ‘Agents Of The State’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAcEIVZy7AU
It’s much worse than a bill of attainder. A BofA was actually debated and voted on in Parliament.
So help me out now. If I think a patient is unhinged, I report him. And then what? They see if he is a registered gun owner? But if he’s unhinged, there’s no reason to expect him to be in compliance with the standing laws, even if he knew what they were. And then what? Will the feds stage a pre-dawn raid to see if he has guns at home? So now I have the power to call down the ATF on people who just rub me the wrong way?
I’d be shocked if anyone in Obama’s administration gave more than 5 minutes of thought to this.
What if your doctor is crazy..should you report him to the FBI?
If I think a patient is unhinged, I report him. And then what?
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Can’t say for sure what their plan is. However, I do recall reading a couple of years ago how they changed the psychological definitions.
Doctors now have to chart digitally - many questions are asked about medications, for example. Any anti-depressant or ADHD medication would be a red flag, whether it is a new prescription or an old one.
Senior citizens who may need assistance with finances, for example would be red flaged by the doctor as well.
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