Monday, September 20, 2010

American Thinker: The Death of Medical Privacy

And we ALL know just HOW GOOD the government is about not having data get into the wrong hands.....???

American Thinker: The Death of Medical Privacy:

As I have read through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA, aka ObamaCare), I have been repeatedly struck by the disregard the law has for patient privacy. Time and time again, the PPACA authorizes the federal government to obtain information about patients directly from their health care providers. A particularly vivid example is Section 4302, 'Understanding Health Disparities: Data Collection and Analysis.' Section 4302 literally opens up almost every medical record in this country for government review and data collection. Let's go through the section with an eye towards patient privacy issues:"

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