On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Todd Walton wrote:
It's Democrats that are pushing the hardest for centralized lists of medical information. If any of the Democratic Presidential candidates, for example, get their way every one of us will have our medical information in one convenient place.
There are good, legitimate reasons for having all your medical information in one place.
That said, those good, legitimate reasons are far and away outweighed by the potential for abuse and theft, both by people directly involved with the program, and outside attackers wanting data to sell to health insurance companies.
It could save lives, while making those same lives absolutely miserable. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu
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