Dr.Who
Well-Known Member
"In 2006, the US Supreme Court struck down an attempt by the Bush administration to interfere in how doctors in Oregon treat terminally ill patients. The justices would not permit "a radical shift of authority from the states to the Federal Government to define general standards of medical practice in every locality."
Bush was wrong and the courts did the right thing. Obviously the decisions made by you and your doctor should be decided by, well, you, and...your doctor.
For the last few years we have heard our President talking about a national medical data base. It has been described as putting all your medical records in one electronic place so that they can be shared quickly in emergencies to save lives and money.
We knew that the government was handing out cash as an incentive for doctors to go digital.
Did you know that the government is actually going to be the one managing the data base?
Did you know that the gov was going to be monitoring the treatment decisions that your doctor makes to make sure that they comply with Federal guidelines?
Did you know that in 2015 the cash incentives for doctors to comply disappear and are replaced with penalties?
Did you know that your private health plan " 'can pay only doctors who implement whatever the federal government dictates to improve "quality.' This is the first time the federal government has asserted a broad power to control how doctors treat privately insured patients."
Let's recap. The fed requires your privately paid doctors report what kind of treatment he wants to give you to the government and will only get paid if his treatment is approved by the federal government and not only will he not get paid for non-compliance but he will be fined too.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinio..._destroys_your_privacy_zItwZSGoI661FeB1iC5POI
I would like to add that the federal government is well aware that this is a violation of ones right to privacy over ones body - a right that is allegedly so important that it trumps the right to life of the unborn. In response to the loss of privacy the government is willing to make provisions that if you want to you can ask for information about AIDS, and reproductive choices to be kept out. (never forget that sexual freedom is the most important right
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Since the privacy of sexual choices and consequences can only be protected by keeping the information out of the record doesn't that prove that the privacy of the rest of your information is non-existent ? Not that it needed any proving - no one disagrees that thousands of government employees would have access to your files and no one doubts that your oral surgeon would know exactly what treatment you got for your erectile dysfunction 20 years ago. No one doubts that the data would be collected and analyzed and compared to everyone else's data. No one doubts that selling data is a huge multi-million dollar business and no one doubts that Micrsoft is writing the software for the data base to make big profits. And wouldn't law enforcement want to know if you had a history of depression the moment they thought you were the guy holding someone hostage at the post office (or pulled over at a traffic stop?).
Bush was wrong and the courts did the right thing. Obviously the decisions made by you and your doctor should be decided by, well, you, and...your doctor.
For the last few years we have heard our President talking about a national medical data base. It has been described as putting all your medical records in one electronic place so that they can be shared quickly in emergencies to save lives and money.
We knew that the government was handing out cash as an incentive for doctors to go digital.
Did you know that the government is actually going to be the one managing the data base?
Did you know that the gov was going to be monitoring the treatment decisions that your doctor makes to make sure that they comply with Federal guidelines?
Did you know that in 2015 the cash incentives for doctors to comply disappear and are replaced with penalties?
Did you know that your private health plan " 'can pay only doctors who implement whatever the federal government dictates to improve "quality.' This is the first time the federal government has asserted a broad power to control how doctors treat privately insured patients."
Let's recap. The fed requires your privately paid doctors report what kind of treatment he wants to give you to the government and will only get paid if his treatment is approved by the federal government and not only will he not get paid for non-compliance but he will be fined too.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinio..._destroys_your_privacy_zItwZSGoI661FeB1iC5POI
I would like to add that the federal government is well aware that this is a violation of ones right to privacy over ones body - a right that is allegedly so important that it trumps the right to life of the unborn. In response to the loss of privacy the government is willing to make provisions that if you want to you can ask for information about AIDS, and reproductive choices to be kept out. (never forget that sexual freedom is the most important right
)Since the privacy of sexual choices and consequences can only be protected by keeping the information out of the record doesn't that prove that the privacy of the rest of your information is non-existent ? Not that it needed any proving - no one disagrees that thousands of government employees would have access to your files and no one doubts that your oral surgeon would know exactly what treatment you got for your erectile dysfunction 20 years ago. No one doubts that the data would be collected and analyzed and compared to everyone else's data. No one doubts that selling data is a huge multi-million dollar business and no one doubts that Micrsoft is writing the software for the data base to make big profits. And wouldn't law enforcement want to know if you had a history of depression the moment they thought you were the guy holding someone hostage at the post office (or pulled over at a traffic stop?).
