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Your medical privacy at risk: CO’s All Payer Claims Database
“Enjoy your medical privacy while it lasts. As supporters claim, they cannot ‘manage’ your health care, unless they can ‘measure’ it.” – Amy Oliver Continue reading
Colorado among states with opt-out options for health information exchanges
Maine joins 8 other states in allowing patients to opt out of gov’t health information exchanges, including Colorado. Government tracking of doctors’ treatment methods is a step toward government control of doctors. Continue reading
Colorado may cancel state-run “Prescription Drug Monitoring Program”
Do you find it kind of creepy that government agents have access to your prescription information? Every med you take, Colorado authorities could be watching you. But Colorado’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program may lose its tax funding. Continue reading
Colorado’s health “information exchanges” threaten your medical privacy
Colorado doctors will be participating in government sponsored “information exchanges,” that create electronic medical records from patient data. The Denver Post reviews past incidents when supposedly confidential information was not secure. Continue reading
Mandatory insurance violates your medical privacy
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 … Continue reading
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Health information technology: benefits and problems
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 … Continue reading
Colorado HB 1330 threatens your medical privacy
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 … Continue reading
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Are your medical records secure?
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 … Continue reading
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20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms
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 … Continue reading
Colorado HB 10-1330: All-payer data base makes your medical history transparent
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 … Continue reading
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