Another long-term issue is the default question, “Do you have guns in the house?” This can create a database of all gun owners if it hasn’t already been compiled.
Check out Rand Paul’s fight against the National Patient Identifier. There is a lot more than just guns at stake.
The big push now is to collect SDOH Social Determinants 0f Health.
What criteria do you think will be collected as the SDOH of Mental Illness?
The Pre-Cogs of Tom Cruise are about to place their dreams in the database. When the next Richard Jewell becomes a suspect, his name will already be in the database with SDOH data to point to his guilt.
DH and I went to our PCP the other day for the Medicare annual “Wellness Exam”. He was all excited, believing it would be a free physical exam. I told him it wasn’t, because the ladies in my quilting group had given me a heads-up. Still, he was thinking “physical”.
So my appointment was first. Doc is going down the list of questions asking if we had area rugs in the house, if we had smoke detectors (I knew the gun questions was coming soon), and I started to laugh. I said, “You don’t need to know that. This isn’t medical; it data harvesting for the government.” That that was the end of that.
Hubby was next. When he came out I saw the look on his face. He had told her the exact same thing and, boy, was he pissed. I laughed; I had warned him. NOT a physical.
So if you’re going for your annual WELLNESS exam, be forewarned.