Well I certainly agree with the government intrusion part.
And in a vacuum, if the information was strictly between your Dr. and yourself and your permission was given, then we are in agreement. [altho my Dr. seems to be so busy that if a prescription lapses, its takes several attempts to reinstate it. How would he ever keep up with “monitoring” my everyday care?]
Problem is that it won’t be in a vacuum. Its not going to be one on one with your Dr. It will be shared and it will be required to be reported to some database in DC or wherever.
They are demanding that identifiable info be reported for “research purposes”! What??? Thats somewhere in the massive cramdown...I don’t have the chapter and verse but it is there. A carved out exception to your supposed “rights” under HIPPA [which only keeps YOUR relatives from knowing your conditions...there are so many exceptions that any bureaucrat can get the info they want.]
Now someone wants to “monitor” if I’ve taken my drugs?
Absolutely NOT.
I don’t have alzheimers and I’m not in a mental ward somewhere. I don’t need a mommy, a daddy or a nanny.
I think we agree on that.
Well said.
And as you point out, HIPAA ‘security’ is a joke. Your privacy is an illusion.
The bottom line for me on this is as you suggest — if it’s between me and my doc, and perhaps even me and my healthcare insurer, I could go with this. Perhaps not for me right now, but I wish I could know that my 88 year old parents are taking the right meds, staying hydrated etc. I can;t be with them every day, and this would help us and them.
BUT the gummint needs to back off on this and other mandates.
Recall that liberals wanted Brady background check info retained for research purposes as well.