Fron the NY Post...""" ‘Are you sexually active? If so, with one
partner, multiple partners or same-sex
partners?”
Be ready to answer those questions and
more the next time you go to the
doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist
or the cardiologist and no matter if the
questions are unrelated to why you’re
seeking medical help. And you can
thank the Obama health law.
“This is nasty business,” says New York
cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski. He
called the sex questions “insensitive,
stupid and very intrusive.” He couldn’t
think of an occasion when a
cardiologist would need such
information — but he knows he’ll be
pushed to ask for it.
The president’s “reforms” aim to turn
doctors into government agents,
pressuring them financially to ask
questions they consider inappropriate
and unnecessary, and to violate their
Hippocratic Oath to keep patients’
records confidential.
Embarrassing though it may be, you
confide things to a doctor you wouldn’t
tell anyone else. But this is entirely
different.
Doctors and hospitals who don’t comply
with the federal government’s
electronic-health-records requirements
forgo incentive payments now; starting
in 2015, they’ll face financial penalties
from Medicare and Medicaid. The
Department of Health and Human
Services has already paid out over
$12.7 billion for these incentives.
Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist
and associate professor at Albert
Einstein Medical College, explains that
your medical record should be “a story
created by you and your doctor solely
for your treatment and benefit.” But the
new requirements are turning it “into
an interrogation, and the data will not
be confidential.”
Lack of confidentiality is what
concerned the New York Civil Liberties
Union in a 2012 report. Electronic
medical records have enormous
benefits, but with one click of a mouse,
every piece of information in a patient’s
record, including the social history, is
transmitted, disclosing too much.
The social-history questions also
include whether you’ve ever used drugs,
including IV drugs. As the NYCLU
cautioned, revealing a patient’s past
drug problem, even if it was a decade
ago, risks stigma.
On the other end of the political
spectrum is the Goldwater Institute, a
free-market think tank. It argues that
by requiring everyone to have health
insurance and then imposing penalties
on insurers, doctors and hospitals who
don’t use the one-click electronic
system, the law is violating Americans’
medical privacy.
The administration is ignoring these
protests from privacy advocates. On Jan.
17, HHS announced patients who want
to keep something out of their electronic
record should pay cash. That’s
impractical for most people.
There’s one question they can’t ask:
Thanks to the NRA, Section 2716 of the
ObamaCare law bars the federal
government from compelling doctors
and hospitals to ask you if you own a
firearm.
But that’s the only question they can’t
be told to ask you.
Where are the women’s rights groups
that went to the barricades in the 1980s
and 1990s to prevent the federal
government from accessing a woman’s
health records? Hypocritically, they are
silent now.
Patients need to defend their own
privacy by refusing to answer the
intrusive social-history questions. If
you need to confide something
pertaining to your treatment, ask your
doctor about keeping two sets of books
so that your secret stays in the office.
Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath
seriously and won’t be offended.
Are such precautions paranoid? Hardly.
WikiLeaker Bradley Manning showed
how incompetent the government is at
keeping its own secrets; incidents where
various agencies accidentally disclose
personal data like Social Security
numbers are legion. And that’s not to
mention the ways in which commercial
databases are prone to hacking and/or
exploitation.
Be careful about sharing your medical
secrets with Uncle Sam."""

Maybe putin and obamaha been doing more than talking?

Amazing that Congress has exemptions from Obamacare...and the AFL-CIO, a big Obamacare supporter at first, now wants exemptions also...hmm...

I know been watching alot of things going on. Got somebody at dc navy yard shooting people now so they say.

Look for another "ban guns and not the person" campaign from the media soon...

Yep prob so. They might team up with syria and gas everbody who knows?

Im actually surprise that they were 2 shooters and only 4 dead and 10 injured. I hope the number dont go up tho

Police chief just said that one shooter is dead and possibly 2 more at large..