The Government Will Protect Your Information
Nov 28, 2009 Political
The US government is moving to impose health care reform on citizens against their will. People will be forced to buy health insurance, the first time in history a person had to purchase something to be a legal citizen. The 60% of us who pay income taxes will end up paying for the health care of the 40% that do not until government realizes that it must start taxing down the line in order to afford the albatross it is imposing.
Government will also make our medical records electronic so that they can be accessed by health care professionals all around. The government will also allow the IRS and other federal agencies to access our records to verify our eligibility. Don’t worry, the government assures us that our records will be safe and that certain things like whether one had an abortion will be left out of the records (because they know the records will be infiltrated).
The government is able to keep us secure. We will be given the same security as Obama himself who is guarded by thousands of armed agents and security professionals who ensure that he is always safe. So remember, the same government that allowed Obama’s security to be breached will be in charge of securing your medical records.
Michaele and Tareq Salahi posed as guests to the State Dinner honoring India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held at the White House. The Salahi’s were able to gain entry to the event even though they did not have an invitation, were not on the guest list, and were not in the data base of people cleared to enter such events. Basically, these two were able to get past all the security designed to keep Obama safe and they were able to have their pictures taken with Obama and Biden. Don’t you feel safe knowing your medical records will be protected by the same level of scrutiny that protects Obama?
Obama wants an investigation into the event to see how they were allowed to enter. No doubt their name played some part of this. There is no doubt that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones would never have been allowed to enter. The diversity police had to let the exotically named Salahi’s in to the event. If they had meant to do harm to Obama and Biden there is little the Secret Service could have done to prevent it. This government is the same group of people responsible for our national security. Is there any question as to why these people were able to enter so easily?
It is possible that this couple will face prosecution for what they did. I ask, is what they did any different than illegals crossing our border? Why should this couple be prosecuted for entering a house that belongs to the American citizen when our government allows that to happen on a larger scale each and every day? Why should we punish the Salahis when we will not punish those who enter this country illegally? Since Obama and the Democrats want to reward illegals with citizenship then we should give the Salahis some kind of reward as well. All they did was get past security to enter a house that belongs to Americans. So they slipped past security, people do that every day on our southern border.
But not to worry, this same security minded government will protect your medical information with the same diligence that it protects Obama. But keep in mind that our government has people like Patrick Leahy who leak secrets to the media. The New York Times routinely published our secrets and helped our enemies in the war on terror. The information came from somewhere inside the government.
If you run for office and have some medical condition that could be embarrassing to you as a candidate there is no doubt it will be leaked to the papers. Obama had court records unsealed in order to embarrass and beat his opponents in Illinois. Is there any doubt that medical records will be part of any opposition research?
The only way to ensure that our records are safe is not to give them the same security as Obama, but to give them the same security as Obama’s long form birth certificate.
Or, scrap this health care overhaul and start fresh to enact common sense reform.
In November of 2010 we need to purge the government of those who are working against our desires.
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And They Want To Make Your Medical Records Electronic
Oct 30, 2009 Political
There is no doubt that computers have changed our lives and the information storage and retrieval have made life much easier (until something goes wrong). Information can be shared all over the world and that information sometimes means the difference between life and death.
The government wants our medical records to be electronic. There are provisions in the health care takeover to make that happen. It would have advantages because patient information could be shared between medical professionals and tests would not have to be repeated because results would be readily available.
The problem is, electronic information is always under attack. SPAM is a minor nuisance and we all deal with it but identity theft is a crime that, in the electronic age, allows people with evil motives to destroy lives. There is an entire industry devoted to stopping identity theft and it is an industry that makes lots of money because the demand is high. Identity theft can come from anyone. Chuck Schumer was involved in stealing Michael Steele’s financial information.
Identity theft is not the only concern. People have a lot of personal information stored electronically and medical records contain some of the most sensitive information about us. HIPAA was passed under Bill Clinton to help protect electronic medical information because it contains things that most people do not want everyone knowing. HIPAA has not been the be all, end all so imagine how bad it would be if everyone had electronic medical records and they were breached?
The Federal Government had its files of House ethics investigations compromised because of carelessness. A junior ethics staff member was working on the files at home and they were obtained through peer-to-peer networking software.
The document was leaked to The Washington Post after a junior ethics staff member saved it on the hard drive of a home computer. The staff member, who had information sharing software, didn’t realize that someone could download the file but was subsequently fired anyway.
A House staff member, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss the matter, said the committee employee’s actions were inadvertent but violated House rules requiring the safeguarding of official documents. Breitbart
These are the people who want to “safeguard” our sensitive medical information.
While it is commendable that Congress actually looks at the potential violations of members (though it rarely does anything about them) it is fair to state that it does not want the information about who is being investigated compromised (and certainly not made public). Members of Congress do not want their names associated with ethics violations because even if they are cleared, it looks bad. There are members of both major parties on the list (should it surprise anyone Murtha is one of them?) and I am sure none of them wanted the list made public.
But it was and all because a staffer, who was allowed to work on the list at home, made a mistake. What would happen if this kind of mistake occurred with our medical information?
This is not the first breach the government has had with information it is supposed to safeguard. The VA had a laptop stolen (when it allowed someone to take it home to work) and it contained the personal information on a huge number of veterans. The FBI lost a number of computers containing classified information and thumb drives stolen from service members who carelessly left them in computers in Iraq were found in street markets. They contained sensitive information.
What guarantee do we have that this kind of carelessness will not happen with regard to our medical records?
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