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http://www.facebook.com/l/;Reagan.org has done some research, and discovered that under Section 3001(c)(3)(A)(ii) of the Health Care Bill/Stimulus, the United States federal government will spend $20,000,000,000 (that’s two billion for those of you who got overwhelmed by all the zeroes) for “an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.”
Additional provisions under 3001(c)(3)(A)(i) require that after the federal government creates a database containing your entire health history, it will also require — read this carefully — the “electronic exchange and use of [this] health information and the enterprise integration of such information.”
What does this mean for you? It means that if your physician, surgeon, hospital, dentist, emergency room caregivers, psychiatrist or any other health care provider takes federal money from ANY patient, then you will be subject to this database under Section 13112.
What kind of information would be filed away about you? The database is set to include obvious information like your physical and family health history, but would also record any thoughts you might have had and relayed to a doctor. So if you discuss (or even just mention) private marital issues, any drug use, genetically predisposed conditions, private abnormalities, concerns about mental or emotional health, etc., the federal government can access that extremely private information. And once your health is a government concern, they can regulate and legislate it — meaning it controls your ability to receive basic care and lifesaving treatment, your decisions to have and raise children, or even your suitability to exercise Constitutional rights such as owning firearms.
Additionally, a federal database containing such sensitive information would be an open invitation to hackers and or a foreign military to attempt to break in and steal records. Every day, databases maintained by the Pentagon, White House and Congress are attacked. If President Obama’s nationalized health care bill passes, your private data will be subject to the same attacks.
We simply cannot allow all of our information to be that vulnerable.
http://www.facebook.com/l/;Reagan.org will continue to work in prevention of this — and we hope you’ll join us in our efforts.
Joshua H. Bolin
Executive Chairman
http://www.facebook.com/l/;Reagan.org
