WND 12.17.2012
Government mandates “truth in advertising” but certainly does not practice it: Hence the “Employee Free Choice Act,” which eliminates closed balloting for unionization; the “Financial Reform” bill that anointed the existing banking elite; or the “Food Safety” bill, which threatens small, organic, healthy farming. But the leader of the pack is HIPPA – technically the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, but more often referred to as “The Privacy Act” for its supposed protection of a patient’s personal health information.
In truth, there is no more medical privacy.
As a doctor who operates within the Medicare/Medicaid system, under the so called “Privacy Act,” I can be fined $50,000 and/or given a year jail sentence for blabbing your medical information to my neighbor, but I am “allowed” and under the rubric of physician quality improvement mandated to give the government your most personal data – your body mass index, drug use, whether you smoke, diabetic glucose levels and anything else they may want. And this information does not even go to a health care professional. It generally goes to an unelected government bureaucrat who has not taken the Hippocratic Oath to put the patient first, who does not know or value your sensitivities, who puts the needs of the government above the needs of you as an individual.
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