I am not ‘tied in knots.’ If you, as a doctor, do not ask stupid, nosey questions, good for you. I’ve been asked inappropriate questions before and I don’t cooperate with that. My children have been asked a bunch of inappropriate, self incriminating, questions by public school employees but they were taught about privacy boundries by us.
I gave my sisters a heads up not to permit doctors to collect inappropriate information on them. Two had docs asking about gun ownership on nosey surveys. This can be back door to gun registration when Washington has access to your medical records.
I wonder what you will do if the government requires that you collect inappropriate information on your patients in order for you to participate in their health care system. What are you going to do when they direct your medical treatment in a way that you find inappropriate or unethical for your patient. You should not permit paranoia to make you avoid dealing with and preparing for this new reality.
More and more, you are going to discover that with commiecare, you work for the government now just like public school teachers. One of the unintended consequences of socialized medicine is that the doctor/patient relationship must change now because docs answer to Washington and sooner or later, Unions, for political purposes as well as healthcare reimbursement purposes.
There is no reason that Americans should not be given a heads up about that ‘change.’ You should be smart enough to analyze this change for yourself as it relates to you, as a professional and think about how you are going to respond to get around this new bureaucratic political authority over you and your patients.
I’ve already decided. 1/1/14 I’m out of a career and livlihood. This monstrosity is costing me a lot more than the average person. There are a lot of us taking the same position. But I still don’t tell Washington e drugging I know or get upset over a question that I can choose how to answer or not answer. The real cost of Obama care is far more significant. And Im just losing my livlihood not my life