If you get a look at the new "Medical Privacy Law" that went into effect four days ago
You will see the draconian stamp of what is to come...
The Veterans Admin just sent me my copy... I no longer have any privacy ..my medical records are open to almost everyone with any agenda...I can complain after the fact and a VA board decides whether or not I am to have privacy...If the board decides that MY Privacy is "not in my best interests" then I dont get any...its that simple
Imagine poor Jessica Lynch...since she and the other POWs will ultimately recieve psychiatric counseling...the VA will provide ANY LAW ENFORCMENT AGENCY WHO REQUESTS IT...her VA medical records...
If the Republicans or Demonrats decide to pass any law state or federal stating that any one who has every been diagnosed with any kind of psychiatric condition cannot own a firearm for self or family protection...Local law enforcement can determine who can and who cannot possess a firearm and move to confiscate it...a house a car or arrest for lying on a application or pretty much anything they want...
This is a law Bush and the dems knew full well is about as Anti American as one can get...
That assault law doesnt sunset and I will never vote for a republican who votes against letting it sunset again...
This is what I fought for?.....what a bunch of crap...all lies..
Off subject, but the new Privacy Laws are actually stricter than what we had last week. My guess is that you didn't know the original laws before you read what the VA sent you.
As someone who works in Health Care, I will tell you that whether you knew it or not, you didn't have "much" privacy before. In fact some of the new laws are so strict that alot of doctors were complaining, because if taken literally it would not allow your primary doctor to call your specialist to discuss your case, or forward lab results or test results without you having to sign a release each and every time. You may think that is ok on its face, yet imagine a scenerio in which you are being treated by your specialist for cancer, and he added 5 more pills to your regimine, yet gets lab results back and sees that one of your chemistries is off. If he has to call your primary MD to tell him to change the dose of a different med you are taking, he would literally have to call you down to his office, have you sign a release, before he could call your primary MD.
Alot of the overly restrictive rules were changed before the final draft, but one originally stated that you spouse could not go to your local pharmacy and pick up your prescription for you because it would violate patient confidentially.
I truly think you are looking at the Med Pivacy laws incorrectly, and as I said they are much stricter than what you had before.