Obama Care – Where is the Outcry from the Privacy Groups?
06 Jun
Posted by MacRanger as Uncategorized
Obama has released his government dictated healthcare system. The long and short- kills HIPAA goodbye. Seems that the Government will be collecting private information about you and I and what doctors we’ve seen, what treatments we’ve had along with what medications we’ve been prescribed. Ed Morrissey notes:
“It’s worth noting that HIPAA ensures patient privacy, which should be a really big deal if we’re letting the government run everything. Without knowing how or whether this works with HIPAA, how can Congress even consider this bill? Speaking of which, on pages 39-40, take a gander at Section 3102, Financial Integrity:
(1) IN GENERAL – A State shall keep an accurate accounting of all activities, receipts, and expenditures of any Gateway operating in such State and annually submit to the Secretary a report concerning such accountings.
(2) INVESTIGATIONS – The Secretary may investigate the affairs of a Gateway, may examine the properties and records of a Gateway, and may require periodical reports in relation to activities undertaken by a Gateway. A Gateway shall fully cooperate in any investigation conducted under this paragraph.
“Gateway” means “provider,” and this appears to do away with that pesky Fourth Amendment, which normally requires search warrants and probable cause to access the records of individuals and businesses. Not under ObamaCare! Now, everyone belongs to the government … rather than the other way around. George Orwell, call your office!”
For those who think this is a good trade off get get free healthcare, consider this.
Right now government information about individuals is obtainable via freedom of information acts and – as in Florida – Sun Shine laws which allow telemarkers to get names, addresses and telephone numbers of of city and state workers. As this information would be obtainable it could be argued that medical information – once it becomes government property – it wouldn’t such a hard thing to extend a request for those who are on certain medications, you know for marketing purposes.
So where is Glenn Greenwald on this.
(**crickets***)
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retire05
June 6th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
1Unions shoot themselves in the head.
For months prior to the election, the CWA (in violation of Beck) sent out newletters supporting Obama. Since the election, the CWA newsletters have push the enactment of universal health care. I warned CWA members (and I know a lot of them) that this was a mistake as it would come back to bite them.
Currently the CWA is in negotiations with AT & T for a new four year contract. This new contract includes old SBC and BellSouth employees.
The major sticking point is health care. AT & T wants the employee to pick up a larger portion of the cost with higher co-pays that would reduce the per employee cost (over $10,000/yr) of coverage to AT & T.
AT & T’s position is that the union has backed universal health care provided by the government and should be more than happy to switch plans from the company provided health care to a federal system if members don’t want to absord the rising cost of their health care benefits. The CWA is apoplectic. The CWA recently crashed an AT & T stock holders meeting demanding increased medical benefits and are now on a campaign to get Democratic congress critters to threaten AT & T with increased FCC regulations. AT & T is standing its ground.
Months ago, AT & T retrained all its supervisors in field work. That means that those supervisors, who are not union, will be in the field in the event of a strike. I predict there will be a strike and in the end, the union will lose as AT & T has become more and more automated in the last four years.
So it is as I predicted months ago. The unions have backed Obama, have backed his plans for a federal health care system (i.e. insurance) and now, when faced with having to accept what they backed, they are in a twit and don’t want it. Socialism is great as long as it is the other guy who has to pay for it but when it hits your home, or paycheck, it’s not so much fun.
I also asked my doctor about the medical records thing. He said he was trying to figure out a way that would prevent the government from being able to access his patient’s records without their approval.
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