Economic Stimulus? Feds Want Your Medical Record Revisited
April 24, 2009
This has gone too far!! The FEDS?…Just who the hell do they think they are?!! Sorry. but this had tripped a major anger breaker with me!! If Americans lay down for this privacy rape it will spell the capitulation of the spirit and will of the American citizen to remain free, and keep an out of control big brother at bay. If we accept this with a whimper, then there’s nothing left to be said, we’re finished, somewhere along the line we lost our cognitive ability to appreciate and enjoy freedom, and recognize when that freedom is in jeopardy. Paleontologist may well discover that we all succumbed from a mysterious malady that liquefied our brains causing the residual to transverse down our spinal column, and take up residence mere inches below the ever present artifact,…the remote control!
This abomination of categorization will lead to the denial of health & life insurance. It will determine if you get a job, or it will determine what job your genetic make up indicates you’re fit to perform. (A 21stcentury post modern genetic cast system) You could be pre-screened by college admission boards. Your history could be encoded on your real id driver’s license if and when that is forced upon us. In an event involving mass causalities you might be rejected for immediate medical treatment because the triage nurse discovers a disqualifying sub-standard DNA trait, and better to focus on saving the more genetically desirable victims. It could lead to blackmail and extortion. It could disqualify you from running for public office. (But I’d be willing to bet that if the sorry bunch of elitist politicians we now endure (except Ron Paul) were to be screened, their DNA would be as crooked and deformed as ‘Salamander Man’ in a freak show. This includes those at the Treasury & the not so Federal Reserve!) This is NOT being dreamed up to increase your quality of life! This is an over reaching dream tool custom made for a totalitarian government!! IT WILL BE ABUSED…wait…It has been already; so what other red flag, bell, whistle, siren, flashing strobe does you’re grey matter require?! And detecting “Criminal DNA”?? Good Lord…this is right out of “Minority Report”! How long are we going to be disrespected, ignored, and slapped around by a government that seeks only wealth, dominion, self perpetuation and absolute power over its (soon to be) subjects? We are already being bankrupted into what will in the fullness of time result in third world living conditions for every one in America except the privileged elite; now we’re to offer up the last thing that is truly ours….the privacy of our own bodies?! Your body was fearfully and wonderfully made by God. What may be right with it, or wrong with it, and the knowledge thereof, is strictly between He and you, the people you chose to the tell, and the sworn promise of privacy from your Doctor if you choose to consult one; that’s the way it should be! This brings up another point…how many people will avoid medical treatment and perish because they fear their medical conditions would become an open book!
Our identity, our individualism, our sense of self, is diabolically being suctioned away morsel & crumb,… along with it our dignity!
This would have caused Hitler to convulse in throws of ecstasy!
D.
Another group, Consumer Watchdog, even suggested today Google is trying to lobby for the "sale of electronic medical records."
The group said, "Reportedly Google is pushing for the provisions so it may sell patient medical information to its advertising clients on the new 'Google Health' database."
Economic stimulus? Feds want your medical records
Electronic database to include lawsuit, mental health, abortion, sexual details
January 27, 2009
By Bob Unruh
World Net Daily
A little-discussed provision in President Obama's economic stimulus plan would demand that every American submit to a government program for electronic medical records without a choice to opt out, and it has privacy advocates more than a little alarmed.Patients might be alarmed, too, privacy advocates said, if they realized information such as documentation on abortions, mental health problems, impotence, being labeled as a non-compliant patient, lawsuits against doctors and sexual problems could be shared electronically with, perhaps, millions of people.
Sue A. Blevins, president of the Institute for Health Freedom, said unless people have the right to decide "if and when" their health information is shared, there is no real privacy.
"President Obama has pledged to advance freedom," she said. "Therefore the freedom to choose not to participate in a national electronic health-records system must be upheld."
Blevins' organization, one of the few raising the alarm at this point, said the stimulus plan would impose an electronic health records system on every person in the U.S. without any provision for seeking patient consent or allowing them not to participate.
"Without those protections, Americans' electronic health records could be shared – without their consent – with over 600,000 covered entities through the forthcoming nationally linked electronic health-records network," Blevins said.
The organization said Americans who care about health privacy should contact members of Congress and the president to let them know about the need for opt-out and consent provisions.
According to the institute, the measure currently includes plans for:
- An electronic health record "for each person in the United States by 2014."
- A national coordinator to develop a "nationwide health information technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of information."
The institute said the medical privacy rule established under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 already allows personal health information to be passed along without patient consent for treatment, payment and "oversight." The recipients of such information could be any of the people in the 600,000 organizations in the industry.
"Nobody wants to stop the proper use of good technology," Blevins said, "and for some people privacy is not an issue."
But she said the bottom line is that patients "would end up losing control of his or her personal health information."
"There's a lot at stake with electronically transferring health data and paying claims within the $2.2 trillion healthcare industry," warned the organization, which works on issues of health freedom in the U.S.
Another group, Consumer Watchdog, even suggested today Google is trying to lobby for the "sale of electronic medical records."
The group said, "Reportedly Google is pushing for the provisions so it may sell patient medical information to its advertising clients on the new 'Google Health' database."
Consumer Watchdog said, "Americans will benefit from an integrated system capable of making our medical records available wherever we may need them, but only if the system is properly used.
"The medical technology portion of the economic stimulus bill does not sufficiently protect patient privacy, and recent amendments have made this situation worse. Medical privacy must be strengthened before the measure's final passage," the group said.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been successful in stopping the action there so far.
The Citizens' Council on Health Care has worked to publicize the issue in Minnesota. The group raised opposition when the state Department of Health continued to warehouse DNA without parental consent in violation of the genetic privacy and DNA property rights of parents and children.
Twila Brase, president of CCHC, said at the time the problem is that "researchers already are looking for genes related to violence, crime and different behaviors."
In an extensive interview with WND at the time, she said, "In England they decided they should have doctors looking for problem children, and have those children reported, and their DNA taken in case they would become criminals."
In fact, published reports in Britain note that senior police forensics experts believe genetic samples should be studied, because it may be possible to identify potential criminals as young as age 5.
Brase said efforts to study traits and gene factors and classify people would be just the beginning. What could happen through subsequent programs to address such conditions, she wondered.
"Not all research is great," she said.
Classifying of people could lead to "discrimination and prejudice. … People can look at data about you and make assessments ultimately of who you are."
The Heartland Regional Genetics and Newborn Screening is one of the organizations that advocates more screening and research.
The group proclaims in its vision statement a desire to see newborns screened for 200 conditions. It also forecasts "every student … with an individual program for education based on confidential interpretation of their family medical history, their brain imaging, their genetic predictors of best learning methods. …"
Further, every individual should share information about "personal and family health histories" as well as "gene tests for recessive conditions and drug metabolism" with the "other parent of their future children."
Still further, it seeks "ecogenetic research that could improve health, lessen disability, and lower costs for sickness."
"They want to test every child for 200 conditions, take the child's history and a brain image, and genetics, and come up with a plan for that child," Brase said at the time. "They want to learn their weaknesses and defects.
"Nobody including and especially the government should be allowed to create such extensive profiles," she said.
The next step, said Brase, is obvious: The government, with information about potential health weaknesses, could say to couples, "We don't want your expensive children."
"I think people have forgotten about eugenics. The fact of the matter is that the eugenicists have not gone away. Newborn genetic testing is the entry into the 21st Century version of eugenics," she said.