[jimtorr]

Note the only person the article names as being opposed to the new regulations. Do you really think Sen. Kennedy cares about individual privacy? He's one of the biggest supporters of government intrusions in your and my life around.

The Clintonista-flavor privacy regulations were only a smokescreen to give government, at every level, unrestricted access to everyones medical records. They were a marvel of bueracrat double-speak. The present regulations strip out most of the government access, I think.

[AM2000]

What you say about the Clinton agenda may very well be true - I don't doubt it, since it's totally in line with the way that administration operated.

Having said that, I don't understand the need to bring the Democrats into this argument. Bush is the one who's going to let corporate America (the insurance companies and HMOs) look at my medical records without my consent. That's the bottom line and there's no sugarcoating it.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Thank you for making sense of a nother SLAM at President Bush. (Attempted).

If anybody thinks Ted Kennedy is the friend of conservatives or of any Americans for that matter - they are living in a dreamworld.

[Clinging Bitterly]

> The Clintonista-flavor privacy regulations were only a smokescreen to give government, at every level, unrestricted access to everyones medical records.

I remember reading that and I didn't like it.
Most of the Clinton era privacy related policies that supposedly restricted access to private info did a pretty good job of exempting government from those restictions.
Suppose that part of the regs was scrapped too?
Not mentioned in the article, but the fact that Kennedy doesn't like it makes me think it may have been.

Dave in Eugene