[Expanding prescriiption drug benefits to ALL Medicare recipients
(whether they need them or not) is yet a further intrusion of the
government into our privacy. Don't think, for a second, the
government would then let the doctors prescribe what the doctors
think is best for you. There will be, within a couple years of
implementation of such a program, a Medicare formulary, limiting
the number of medications that Medicare would cover. But, you and
your prescriptions would be entered into a government data base.
--MS]
Say goodbye to medical privacy
by David Limbaugh, WND
Aside from psychological reasons, why can't the Clintons be
straightforward about things? It's easy to understand why Bill
wouldn't want to be candid about his "affairs," but what about
his policy proposals?
If the Clintons' ideas were superior, they would have no motive
to be deceitful about them, right? Think again. The truth is
that they know that despite liberalism's virtual monopoly in the
mainstream press, the universities, and most of our other
cultural institutions, it is still not the majority philosophy
among most voters. So they have to disguise many of their
programs or, in some cases, secrete them from the public
altogether.
Remember Hillary's notorious plan to socialize American medicine?
While pretending that it was going to be produced by the people
"from the bottom up," she kept her task force meetings secret to
the point of earning a rebuke by U.S. District Judge Royce
Lamberth. But why? What did she have to hide? Well, plenty, as
it turns out. Hillary's 1,300-page plan would have nationalized
14 percent of the nation's economy, a fact she could ill-afford
to have disclosed.
And now, she and Bill both claim to have learned their lesson
from that fiasco. But are they honest about that lesson? What
they want you to believe is that they are willing to compromise
and abandon their goal of nationalized health care. Actually,
the only lesson they learned is that to accomplish their goal of
socialized medicine they must do it incrementally, one
inconspicuous step at a time.
Although Hillary Care suffered a humiliating defeat in 1994, some
of its insidious components survived and became law in 1996 with
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA), a.k.a., Kennedy-Kassebaum. Hillary's plan contained a
provision regarding a "unique health identifier" (a patient ID
number) that could be used to track each person's medical history
electronically from cradle to grave. This gem was resurrected
and codified into law in HIPAA in 1996. So far, our Brave New
World medical ID numbers have not been created, but soon will be
if something isn't done.
Though the provision for the creation of the medical ID numbers
is already in the law, Texas Congressman Ron Paul has been
successful so far in leading an effort to block appropriations
for implementation of this provision. This week, this
appropriations bill (HR 4577) will be voted on again, and if it
passes, the unique health identifier -- the medical ID number --
will be created for all of us.
It gets worse. This year, the Department of Health and Human
Services proposed "medical privacy regulations" that will apply
to all individuals, whether their health care is paid for
privately or by the government. Those who love freedom and
cherish privacy should be alarmed about these developments.
Here's why:
While Clinton touts the medical ID number and the proposed
medical privacy regulations as enhancing our medical privacy,
they do just the opposite. The assignment of these numbers is
the first step toward universal health care, and the regulations
severely undermine our privacy. The government will be entitled
to access our private medical records without our consent and the
government -- not you -- will decide who else will have access to
our records. Under the regulation's health plans, providers,
hospitals, researchers, medical students, government agents, law
enforcement officials, and whomever else the government decides
will have access. Are you nervous yet? If not, be aware that
the regulations will also limit patients' access to their own
records, especially in malpractice cases. And they will limit
our right to sue others for breaching our medical
confidentiality.
If Ron Paul fails to convince Congress again to block funding for
creating the ID numbers, all is not lost. He also has prepared a
bill to repeal the HIPAA provision that requires the adoption of
our ID numbers. This is a good start but another provision also
empowers the government to adopt those privacy regulations that
authorize the collection and sharing of our medical records
without our consent. Congress should repeal that provision as
well.
Once again, the Clintons, under the guise of expanding our
rights, are taking them away. If we don't derail this train now,
our chances of thwarting Hillary's grandiose scheme to socialize
health care may be out the window.
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