Mandatory insurance violates your medical privacy

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Dave Kopel notes: Among the lawsuits filed against Obamacare is a class action in the Southern District of Mississippi. Class representatives, for residents of Mississippi who do not wish to be subject to the health insurance purchase mandate,  include State Senator Chris McDaniel and Lt. Governor Phil Bryant. The complaint is available ...

Health information technology: benefits and problems

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

For those interested in Colorado politics ( Colorado HB 1330) and medical privacy, check out this summary of a recent study by published by the National Center for Policy Analysis. Although many proponents discuss the perceived benefits of health information technology (HIT), missing from the debate is an honest ...

Colorado HB 1330 threatens your medical privacy

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Watch Jon Caldara, Linda Gorman, and Amy Oliver discuss how ObamaCare and Colorado HB 1330 threaten your medical privacy. Part 1is about ObamaCare's mandatory insurance and new taxes. Part 2 discusses HB 1330, which puts your medical history into a government database: Transparency is about taxpayers being able to watch government, ...

Are your medical records secure?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

From Debora C. Peek of Patient Privacy Rights in the Wall Street Journal: ... President Barack Obama said that his administration wants every American to have an electronic health record by 2014, and last year's stimulus bill allocated over $36 billion to build electronic record systems. Meanwhile, the ...

20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

From David Hogberg in Investors Business Daily: ...It is worthwhile to take a comprehensive look at the freedoms we will lose [with health "reform" passed]. Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians ...

Colorado HB 10-1330: All-payer data base makes your medical history transparent

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Linda Gorman, director of the Independent Institute's Health Care Policy Center, summarizes this bill and how it's bad for Coloradans. Here's a list of her main points: What the Bill Does: Gives the Executive Director of Health Care Policy and Financing the power to create a database to collect and ...

Your medical records: Will government employees get paid to read them?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

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. ...