Karl Auer Can you genuinely not see how misuse of medical information might hurt > you, or how a Government might wish to use it for purposes that we the > population may not want or approve of? If you genuinely cannot, then > say so and we will try to elucidate. But I fear you are being > rhetorically obtuse. >
I'm not being rhetorically obtuse. I want explicit information: risks, likelihood estimates. The reason I ask is I believe that this argument is taking place in a mythological zone where the government is some kind weird evil entity single mindedly set on subjugation of the good people of the land. That's a silly narrative, even if it is currently a standard part of the groupthink. Australia regularly does well on independent quality of government indexes, eg, http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/#reports. If you are seriously running a narrative that Australia is an evil state, check out the competition. I previously ask for an example of harm enabled through too much government information and got the Stolen Generation. Is that realistic? Should the government abrogate child protection because that requires information? Or was the stolen generation more realistically a result of racist attitudes of both the government, and the populace, at the time? My approach to this would be to ask for solid quantifiable facts. So what explicit risks do you see? How likely? How serious is the harm? (Most importantly from my point of view how does it weigh up the the potential benefits of the shared health record but as you have claimed that benefits are nonexistent or negligible we can leave that out for now.) I'm hearing what appear to me to be a lot of lot of fluffy and unsubstantiated claims around here. One - or both of us - are off the rails. I don't have a problem changing my mind but I need evidence not narratives. A list of what you think are actual risks with a real chance of happening would help. Jim > > Here's what I said to Stephen Duckett. I think it accurately states why > I and many others fear that there are hidden/unstated and dangerous > objectives behind MHR system: > > "Forgive my cynicism, but when a good way of achieving an objective is > persistently ignored in favour of a much, much worse way that > coincidentally is a really good way to achieve a bunch of other > unrelated things, the suspicion must arise that the real objective has > not been shared." > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer > http://twitter.com/kauer389 > > GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 > Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A > > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
