Don't let Hillary electronically 'brand' U.S. babies!

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[justrepublican]

First post. hope I got it right.

[goodnesswins]

You done good....ironic that the FIRST baby has my maiden name.....yikes.

[hedgetrimmer]

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[Brad’s Gramma]

Look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.......!!!!!!!

[ChefKeith]

What do You think is happening with Your SS # right now (and has been for decades) ?

[justrepublican]

Is my ss# being shared internationally?

[Ken H]

Who are the members of the House/Senate conference committee?

[hocndoc]

On April 14th, your doctor and virtually everyone who is involved in medicine must become "compliant" with the "Privacy Act." This act is designated in newspeak.
There is no privacy of medical information at the present: your doctor will be subject to sanctions including removal from participation with Medicare, medicaid and all insurances which accept money from Medicare if he does not allow the inspection of his office on demand by anyone who is a 'representative" of the US.Secretary of Health, which includes State law officers and health care bureaucrats.
What little protection you have - no information may recorded or demanded without supoena - will disappear under the "Privacy Act" and the "Health Insurance Portability and Protection Act." (Also known as HIPPA)
A very few doctors who do not use faxes or computers to transmit records or file their bills to insurance companies by computers and who do not do business with anyone who does, will be able to refrain from "voluntary" compliance.
(Medicare allows paper filing of claims, but the rules say they will not consider paper claims for 45 days after they are received, while they pay electronic claims in 2 to 4 weeks. Some insurances and medicaid payers do require electronic filing and verification or pre-authorization.)
The regulations are not final, although they were legacies of that last week of Clinton and Donna Shalala before President Bush was sworn in.
You will have more signs to read and consents to sign when you go to your doctor. Your medical information will belong to anyone in any government or quasi-government organization, including Law Enforcement.
For more information:
http://www.aapsonline.org/confiden/boswell.htm

Infringements of HIPPA are subject to fines of $50000 and up.

From the AAPS website:


"The Privacy Rule commands essentially unlimited
means, allowing dissemination of personal medical records in broad circumstances
and even requiring their distribution in others. It bypasses well-established
protections of judicial process for the Secretary to seize medical records. In effect
for more than a year, the Rule is plenty ripe for challenge. It even has a retroactive
effect in subjecting past medical records to the same loss of privacy as future ones."


""The Privacy Rule creates federal power to access personal medical records
without a warrant or showing of cause. The records seized need not be connected
with any federal program. The communications by patients to physicians subject
to this access can be unrelated to payment for services. Once accessed, there are
no meaningful protections against further dissemination of the information. The
Privacy Rule even forswears any ability to stop publication once the information
falls into the hands of a non-covered entity, such as an employer, insurer, or
adversary of the patient or physician. 65 Fed. Reg. 82712.""

http://www.aapsonline.org/judicial/hipaalaw.htm

It may be too late to prevent this.

[justrepublican]

I just searched and found this page.

http://www.house.gov/appropriations/

not yet posted.

[justrepublican]

Incrementalism works both ways. But I'm looking for some sunshine.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The most heavy-handed aspect of the new federal rules is the unprecedented government access to everyone’s private medical records. While masquerading as patient protection, the rules would actually eliminate any last shred of patient confidentiality. "[The Regulations]...allow government virtually unrestricted access to those same records without a warrant," states the complaint.

When it comes to government prying, these rules obliterate any remote notion of patients’ rights. Doctors are required to disclose all patients records to thousands of federal bureaucrats -- with or without consent, including handwritten notes and psychiatric records. "...consent forms [are] provided to patients as a condition for treatment...[therefore] such consent is coercive and cannot constitute a valid waiver of Fourth Amendment rights."

Law enforcement agencies will have unrestricted access to all records -- including notes about drug use, family interactions and other confessions. But it gets even worse. Not only can doctors be fined or imprisoned (up to $50,000 and one year) for withholding records, patients can be denied treatment if they refuse to sign the consent form. "Plaintiff AAPS has patient members who are already reluctant to provide information to their physicians due to the broad access to such information provided by the Privacy Regulations to the government."

[weegee]

Multiple people with the same birth name will no longer be a problem now that they are all assigned a number to identify their "permanant file". We're lucky, that got tossed out when we graduated high school. < /sarcasm >

[Elsie]

Assigning every American a “unique health identifier” is necessary for Hillary Care’s new, centralized, medical database to work. The Social Security number is not as satisfactory as the new "unique health identifier" would be.

How STUPID can you get?!

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Why is the "brand"s 9 numbers diferent, better or more effective than the SSN 9 numbers????

answer........

It's NOT!!!

Besides, for at LEAST 7 years, SSN's have been 'assigned' to American babies at BIRTH, not waiting until they 'enter the work force' to get one!

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If the TITLE of this thread had shown up in my E-mail, I'd say SPAM immediately!!!

[Elsie]

"Little Beth Atkinson's birth – at three minutes past midnight yesterday – made medical history. Beth, who came into the world at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, became the first baby in the country to be given an NHS ‘lifelong’ identification number.

Well.... what WAS it??

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000000001 perhaps?

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OOps! We gotta re-think this, 'cause there's NO WAY that 9 digits can identify more than 6 BILLION people world wide!

[mistaken1]

26 characters in our alphabet plus 10 digits in our base 10 numeral system equals 36 unique digits.

I am not a mathematician so maybe one will correct me but 36 unique digits times 9 positions equals one hundred and one trillion, five hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and fifty-six million, six hundred and sixty-eight thousand, four hundred and sixteen unique ID numbers. (101,599,956,668,416) More that enough for everyone in the world.

Existing social security number databases are not designed for any alphabetic characters.

[justrepublican]

"The United Nations? Yes, because the World Health Organization wants this numbering system to be worldwide. It started in the United Kingdom and it will soon be picked up in the United States with other countries to follow."

To my knowlage my SS# isn't used worldwide, but I am not well traveled.

000000001 now thats funny.

[princess leah]

More like 000000666!

[hocndoc]

Just think of all the State could do with *your* personal medical information.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/836930/posts?page=10#10

[hocndoc]

Here's the Leftists' reasoning behind the Privacy Act: because rich people may buy privacy under the old system:

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=4609
""Goldman said that almost "20% of people in this country either pay out of pocket or lie to their doctors or keep information out of their record" if they receive treatment for mental health, sexually transmitted diseases, reproductive health or genetic counseling. Those who can't afford to pay out of pocket may also avoid getting treatment altogether. Asked if "secrets belong to the rich," or those who can afford to get treatment without going through an insurance company, Goldman said, "Yes, people who have money can better protect their privacy. They can get the health care they need" (Stanberg, "Morning Edition," NPR, 5/15). ""

The Government solution? To deny anyone privacy while calling it a "Privacy Act." (Mouse built to Government specs does not equal an elephant: in this case, it equals a ravenous monster.)

I'm a Republican, I want to support this Administration, I understand how hard it is to overturn laws that were written and implemented the way the 1996 HIPPA was, but I do not understand why these regs are going through.