Your medical records: Will government employees get paid to read them?
January 28th, 2009 | by Brian Schwartz |Amanda Carpenter suggests that it will:
Universal healthcare is going to get a big boost from the $825 billion stimulus bill if it passes in current form.
$600 million is allocated on page 50 of the bill to double funding to pay doctors and nurses employed by the National Health Services Corps. The bill states: “A key component of attaining universal health care reform will be ensuring the supply of primary health care providers family medicine, internal medicine, pediatricians, dentists, and nurses.”…
Daschle would receive another $1.5 billion to give a final report to President Obama “containing information describing Federal activities on comparative effectiveness research and recommendations for additional investments in such research.”
In his recent book on health care, Daschle said these steps would be essential in creating an universal health care program. Billions more have been allocated to the Secretary to develop a government database to store medical records on.
“In an ideal world,” Daschle wrote in his book “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis, “the staff would have access to privacy-protected electronic health records data to use to identify what works and what doesn’t.”
If you are interested in examining this information please read pages 135-150 of the bill, available HERE, which discusses stimulus funding for HHS.
Read her article here.
tags: medical privacy, ObamaCare, Tom Daschle
