Please File Your Comment Against Electronic Health Records by March 15!
March 9, 2010
The institute for Health Freedom has brought to our attention the filing deadline for sending in your comments about the proposed national electronic records system. We agree with the Institute that the proposed system is a disaster because a) it will invade your privacy by allowing hundreds of thousands of parties to access your records and b) it will allow big brother (the government) to look over the shoulder of every prescribing natural health physician, which could easily lead to license revocation threats. Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
To file your comment, please visit: http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480a7c4a8
The Bottom Line is that, ” Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.”
In my opinion, “Electronic records is just another way for the government and the insurance companies to manipulate the control over your health care.”
This is just insane ! Putting health information on a database for third parties to view is so much more than just a blatant attack on our privacy ! It will bring to an end the security of seeing a real health care provider. People will stop seeing their health care providers, they will stop taking their medications, and will inevitably end up seeing some wanna-be-doctor-hack that will more easily kill them than heal them. There is absolutely no reason as to why we can’t keep records how they are now. If a doctor wants info, they can get a signed release form and have the info sent straight to that doctor.
The idea that a database will be safe and controlled is just naive and disgusting. If a hacker can get into the governments database at the government level, how can a hacker, an insurance company, or a pharmaceutical company not get to it? Isn’t it bad enough that we are bombarded with insane commercials telling us what medicines we should take instead of our educated physicians telling us? The whole country is going to hell and the governments response is to take more privacy and security away from the public. What’s next? I have to give blood to get a license? To get money out of the bank? Or get fingerprinted every time I go through a toll? This is just getting too ridiculous ! Welcome to the awareness of the end.
First off- A huge data base of this kind of info can easily lead to tampering and the changing intentionally or accidentally of anyone’s info. This also includes the stealing of private info. No matter what promises you are given as far as privacy controls go. They will not work and this system will be compromised.
Second- It is my opinion that this Electronic Data Base is a foundation for the government Health Care Bill, and that it can easily be utilized, to manipulate the control over your health care.
Third- We must consider what this can lead to. Would it ever be connected to our credit report in some way? For instance when a person applies for auto insurance the applicants credit reports are available to the insurance companies for the purpose of assessing RISK. So an insurance company may decide not to insure you or your premium may be higher because of at some time or another you paid some bills late or met with a hardship. We just have to think about the possibilities.
Fourth- The Electronic Data base surely makes a person just another number. You know that because of the pressures allopathic doctors face today that your lucky if you spend 15 -30 minutes with the doctor. Your in and out. We need the personal and individual attention and care. The Data base will ensure that does not happen. The group ‘ your just a number ‘ mentality is what has been diminishing the rights of each and every one of us and consequently the whole ‘group’ suffers.
Its time to really think about the different ways this can affect the people. One negative outcome is enough to squash this idea of Electronic Data base of Health Information. We need to realize more reasons not to have this. Then share these thoughts with others and encourage them to realize other possibilities.-
You are crazy!!! What are coming to? I absoluteley oppose that. There is not enough privacy in this country w/ all electronic data collected w/out our knowledge or consent.
Are we in1984 or 2010? P-L-Z
To me standardized records will lead to ‘approved’ treatments, which will lead to mandated treatments. Do you have any other talking points you recommend?
The “well guarded” Pentagon can be hacked. So could electronic medical records. Legislators, think about your own records being read & copied by anybody.
NO to electronic medical records.
I do not want my personal information shared unless I give permission to do so. I want it spelled out exactly who can see what and when each time there would be a request for information. I agree with the other comments, privacy for the patient and the doctor must be maintained or forget it.
I am opposed to this proposed Senate Bill 3002 from Sen. John McCain. I am living with metastatic hormone refractive prostate cancer. I was diagnosed with the disease about 18 months ago, and although I’ve undergone chemotherapy and now radiation in addition to the hormone deprivation therapy, my health remains somewhat good as I’ve been consuming a variety of dietary supplements. If supplements are no longer available, such as Vitamin D3 (high dose), I doubt I’ll be able to live with this disease for very long. Conventional therapies only provide medical applications to treat symptoms. Supplementing the conventional therapies with vitamin supplements has prolonged my prognosis by at least two years. Therefore, I strongly oppose Sen. McCain’s SB3002.
STOP IT!! I cannot wait until the next election. I have been a nmild mannered tax paying hard working citizen neverf causing one ripple in this pond.
Enough is enouhg. The voters are going to speak very loudly the nect election. Duhhhhh, how can this be controlled protecting the consumer and the doctor?
Antoher example of a non-caring government idea.
I was born with a condition that can be embarrassing as a male and I do not want this info available to anyone that can hack a database…The only people that has a hard copy of what I went through as a child is myself and my Dr. and I would like it to stay that way…Stay out of peoples business and let them work with their Dr.
Electronic records are efficient and effective ways to evolve our medical system to the 21st century and would lower cost about 30%. We will have electronic records. Work to make them safe and make it cost those who misuse access to the information.
We have trillions of dollars in billions of accounts with electronic records and can do business, live and travel world wide with a minimum of real problems with an acceptable loss rate on an improving scale and the subjective special interests what us to move backwards.
We have a management problem. Production is in the system. Our current system is 80% controlled by subjective special interests whose goal is money and power. These subjective special interests do not care about the common good.
Work for term limits, the most efficient and effective way to evolve our government to a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Even the super wealthy “powers that be” will be better off.
You, your family, your friends, your countrymen will be better off with one term representation.
Think about this. Do you think 80% or 70% or even 60% of the people around you are more bad than good, are incapable of working for reasonable compromise for the common good? If the majority are good people, which you and I believe, then we need to change the human management system of unlimited terms to one 6 year or a 4 year term.
Until we get a term limits constitutional amendment it is in our enlightened self-interest to vote for the most qualified of the newest persons running for office who has not been in office before and for women candidates over men candidates. At the very least new representatives are less adept at corruption and women are less corruptible and more objective then men partly because they know what it is like to be a second class citizen.
Privacy, now more than ever, is a must. I hope this freedom is not revoked.
I am absolutely against this. Why do you insist upon trampling the privacy of people? Why would you even make it possible for such private information available to be accessed by others? You are going too far and giving democracy a bad name.
To Whom It Will Concern:
Privacy rights MUST BE guaranteed by law for both patient and physician before
electronic records are implemented. Otherwise, forget it!
There have already been numerous breaches of information. How many more?
The proposed system is a disaster because a) it will invade your privacy by allowing hundreds of thousands of parties to access your records and b) it will allow big brother (the government) to look over the shoulder of every prescribing natural health physician, which could easily lead to license revocation threats. Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
I agree with the Institute for Health Freedom that the proposed system is a disaster because a) it will invade your privacy by allowing hundreds of thousands of parties to access your records and b) it will allow big brother (the government) to look over the shoulder of every prescribing natural health physician, which could easily lead to license revocation threats. Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
Just one more insult of our freedoms being taken away.
Just one more insult of our freedoms being taken awsay.
Are you aware that the link web page you supply above is for health professionals only,
exclusively? How about giving us peons a method to comment?
If this box is the method, here’s my comment . . . .
What’s next? A video camera in my bedroom? Get real! This is one more example of a corrupt, fascist government.
The national electronic recording system is something I want no part of as, unlike many people in America today, I value my privacy. I do not want my personal information out there for anyone to read, for whatever their purposes might be. This is not a well thought out plan, and certainly does not focus on long-term privacy issues.
NATIONAL ELECTRONIC RECORDS SYSTEM?? I DON’T THINK SO. GOVERN”MENTAL” IDIOTS CAN’T EVEN PASS HEALTH REFORM!!
Sir , Please don’t vote for the electronic medical bill. We have enough of our business out
where our identies can be stolen. I also feel our medical records should only be for
our Doctors . The big insurance companies get our records then they don’t want to pay the bills .But they pay their C E O s large amounts of salery and let the people who need it go to the devil Thank you
I am strongly against electronic health records.
I strongly oppose the idea of having a national electronic records system in which my rights under HIPPA have the potential to be violated. The physician/patient code of confidentiality needs to remain intact on both an individual and national level. No outside agency, including the federal government, should have the right to access a person’s confidential medical records at will.
The proposed national electronic records system is a disaster because a) it will invade our privacy by allowing hundreds of thousands of parties to access your records and b) it will allow big brother (the government) to look over the shoulder of every prescribing natural health physician, which could easily lead to license revocation threats. Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
I feel electronic health records would save paper, but would be most likely abused by those who would wish to do so. I am against them.
To much access by to many this info is worth money to those that have the info if they want misuse and sell it to who so ever, insurance companys, would appreciate this imfo.
For nineteen years, after a bicycle car accident, I was forced to take heavy, misdiagnosed, medication by traditional Western medical doctors. Only to find out, after much horror of the medical system, like raped in the hospital, massive shock treatments in the middle of the night not Okayed, and on the brink of death due to the side effects of these misdiagnosed medications, did I find out through an atlas-orthogonal chiropractor that my atlas-orthogonal was rotated 24 by 7 degrees. So it was not an emotional issue, side effects of the addictive drugs, that took $100,000 in detoxification to get off of, 1988, it was a neck injury. Even today, medical doctors do not refer people to chiropractors, yet that is how I recovered. Then there was the issue of balancing my chemistry after all those drugs, which took natural healing and was successful way beyond Western medicine. Let’s work together not a part. Too many people are suffering at the hands of narrow minded approaches to medicine.
I am against electronic records as they will have all vital information that can be used for identity theft! I, also, don’t want everyone and his brother looking at my personal information on my health or what drugs I do/do not take.
The proposed system is a disaster because a) it will invade your privacy by allowing hundreds of thousands of parties to access your records and b) it will allow big brother (the government) to look over the shoulder of every prescribing natural health physician, which could easily lead to license revocation threats. Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
I’m writing to comment regarding the proposed “National electronic Records System”.
My health records are the business of my Doctor and myself. Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
Please make sure that privacy is guaranteed both for patients and physicians when developing a national electronic records system. Abuses which could otherwise occur would be very damaging.
I am opposed to electronic health records.
Electronic health records will (1) invade my privacy, (2) shatter patient-doctor confidentiality, (3) destroy my right to privacy of my medical records, (4) make me lose control over who views my medical records, (5) open the door for hackers to access my private medical records, (6) open the door for telemarketers and other unsavory characters to use my private medical information for their own ends.
Patient-doctor confidentiality MUST be maintained! Electronic medical records will destroy this confidentiality.
One’s right to medical record privacy MUST be maintained! This right will end with electronic medical records.
The government should not have access to our health records. Stay out of our lives!!!!!!!!!!