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
No American should agree to have his or her medical records to be available for the scrutiny of nameless, faceless bureacrats. It is un-American to require such a loss of privacy.
Respectfull,
A. Mazzara
The proposed national electronic records system will a) it will invade my privacy by allowing hundreds of thousands of parties to access my records and b) it will allow the government to interfere with my health freedom and that of the prescribing natural health physicians I use and who are the only effective ones in our country. I’m against the establishment doctors’ use of drugs/surgery which is responsible for our soaring health costs. Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician. I don’t see how this is possible for any program with govt. involvement. Government should stay out of health care!
Electronic records are NOT secure and I feel very strongly that they should not be allowed. I know all the points in favor but they are overwhelmed by the dangers of hacking.
Converting health records to an electronic format without iron clad privacy controls would be an horrific compromise to patient privacy and the patient doctor privelage. I am strongly opposed to any legislation that would forther compromise patient privacy.
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 our 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 have nothing to say against electronic health records. It is essential that our health records be converted to an electronic format as soon as possible. People are dying because the information is not available, incomplete, or just plain wrong or illegible.
Quit complaining and get the job done.
I am opposed to electronic health records. Such should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed for the patient and the physician. Thank you.
Let’s get real folks, Preventative medicine and natural substances are the best health care we can get. There’s no need to pry into peoples life, just stop the pollution and provide appropriate, (real, natural) ways for people to STAY healthy.
I think electronic records are great but should only be allowed access by your physician and/or his or her office. Thank you!
The intrusive nature of those of whom that desire overall control never ends. Attacks on freedoms and the essence of free will, must halted and rolled back!
MEK
No electronic health records EVER…
Please do NOT allow our electronic records to be viewed by anyone other than the patient and the physician! This should be private. Why does the government think they need to know what’s going on with our health?? Or anyone else for that matter?? They do not need to know this. If this is allowed, then our rights and privacy have gone out the window.
I honestly think more government legislation is not right. This includes the passing of this bill. heck, even my doctors are against it. Yes, i know this might help someone in an emergency. This is why I carry a list of my meds, supplements, conditions and previous operations with me. If everyone did this. This Electronic health Records bill would be superfluous. Oh wait, it already is superfluous! At least for myself and the millions of others that take their health seriously.
Anyway, just my take on increased governmental C _ _ _ in our lives!
Bill
Dear Sirs
Please do not consider “nationalizing” my health records. I DEMAND my doctor patient relationship remain PRIVATE. Please don’t tell me my records will not be used in a manner I do not approve of. I am 70 years old I have seen how anything “nationalized” has been misused and abused.
IMO a primary reason for the “electronic records” is the encroaching totalitarian government being built right before our eyes. These “electronic records” will be used to force vaccinate those of us with enough sense to refuse the insane “vaccinations” for the bio-weapons being foisted on humanity.
Who would have ever thought the good old USA would be forcing needles into the arms of its citizens at the point of a gun. Good people it is time to wake up.
Thanks You
Lou Monter
No national electronic health records!
National electronic records system should not be allowed unless patient and physician privacy from the government and other agencies can be guaranteed.
I agree with IHF.
I want to keep my life private, especially with my physician. My life is not an open book and if it was I would so publish.
This should be an option not a mandatory situation.
I am 100% against the proposed national electronic records system. My medical records are private and I do not want them in a system that other parties can access or that will be hacked.Even if privacy rights are guaranteed, I have no confidence that it will be followed. At this time in history, when states are trying to balance budgets and when government spending isn’t balanced, I cannot understand why this would even be considered. You can’t tell me this will be free to implement.
The only people who should have access to my health records are me and my Doctors, not an electronic database.
This is the fear in Health Care! Stay out of my personal life Government. These records were intended to be private between a patient for so many reasons beyond what this Electronic Records Act says the benefits would be. I would like to point out that this would be ideal to go with the Health Care nightmare Obama wants to push through, as far as who is given or denied treatment. This is worse than Socialized Medicine, next The Government will mandate us getting a tracking and and bio feed back chip in our bodies! It’s only for your own good you know…
Anyone who is an advocate of freedom and human rights will “head ‘em off at the pass”.
This violates privacy rights as people hack into computer files all the time.
I am writing to oppose the proposed national electronic records system. This will be an invasion of privacy allowing hundreds of thousands of parties to access my records. Electronic records should should be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
Am against Health Electronic records, since anyone can invade my privacy by looking into it without my authorization. This is a very dangerous action we never know what will be next and how they will be using the information obtain from it. I just trust my doctor to have my information. It’s no one business to be using my personal information. This will set a real bad situation for both the patient and their doctor, since no one know what will happened once the information is obtain from the record. I want my privacy rights to be preserved I do not want any more intrusion by government in our personal lives.
Please stop invading our personal lives. This Electronci Health Records system is ridiculous.
Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
Thank you for listening,
VERY OPPOSED TO ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. I ALREADY HAVE BEEN INVADED ELECTRONICALLY FOR INNOCUOUS INFORMATION, LET ALONE PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION. WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHO HAS A RIGHT TO LOOK AT OUR HEALTH RECORDS. IT’S A BAD DECISION THAT COULD ONLY LEAD TO WORSE THINGS DOWN THE LINE FOR EVERYONE.
GOSH, IS ANY OF OUR PRIVACY SACRED ANYMORE. PLEASE DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!
I believe we still live in a Democracy and that the Constitution is still valid. As such my health is nobody;s damn business but mine. Get yourselves a life. And that goes for everyone else…or are government officials not part of the world.
We want to preserve our privacy, Not TO BE AVAILABLE TO BY ELECTRONIC MEANS.
Medical records are personal and no one’s business but a person and their physician, who is sworn to uphold the privacy of the patient. NO WAY should the government have access to one’s personal medical records. The process of healing should not be restricted to a certain class of individual, nor to a certain selection of treatments (ie:drugs and surgery) but instead a wide range of alternative therapies should be available to people who wish to stay healthy naturally. I believe the integration of mainstream and alternative medicines is the key to a truly healthy future for all of us.
Stop government from taking my right to privacy and stop the taking of my freedom to chose without interference. Those in government are elected to work for the people not as dictators. If they choose not to work for the people … remove them. It may take time but the American people will do it. I love my freedom which should include my privacy. I will fight to protect my freedom and privacy.
As an American I want to keep my privacy please stop electronic health records
I believe that the proposed system for Electronic Health Records is a dangerous violation of privacy rights because a) it will allow hundreds of thousands of parties to access personal records and b) it will government agencies to look over the shoulder of every prescribing natural health physician, which could easily lead to strong arm tactics like license revocation threats. Electronic records should only be allowed if privacy rights are guaranteed, privacy both for the patient and the physician.
I am against the proposed national electronic records system. It will invade my privacy by allowing hundreds of thousands of parties to access my records and b) it will allow big brother (the government) to look over the shoulder of every prescribing natural health physician. People could easily face blackmail if the records contained information that was embarassing to the patient of the records. I should have the right to say who shoould have the right to see and know my personal information. My health is my business. Respect my privacy.
The proposed Electronic Health Records is a disaster against personal privacy. To have everyone’s personal records available to thousands and thousands of parties and to the government is against the constitution and our rights. Stop this problem NOW!
I do not favor the use of electronic health records, the information is only as good as the input. Myself, I experience regularly the incorrect spelling of my last name. I for one do not want my social security number linked with my name on an online electronic health record site. I believe it will not save money and will create a serious security threat to everyone on the site. My vote is NO.
If patient requests electronic records…if patient would rather not have this information available, I believe it should not be available.
Please stop the passage of the national electronic records system implementation. Our privacy is be at stake! Records can continue to be forwarded with our permission to our new medical caregivers. I don’t want all our government officials to have access to my personal records or those of my family.
Implementation of this electronic records system would be a giant step to total government control of our personal lives. The government has no right to have my records.
We do not want our health records to be filed electronically. We do not want or need a national system.
Floyd & Patricia Washburn
I believe that electronic records should only be allowed IF privacy rights are guaranteed, both for the patient and the physician.
Thank-you
I oppose of electronic records being allowed. I feel everyone’s privacy is already at risk with fraudulent activity on the internet and I know there is no preventable way for the electronic records to not be hacked by outside systems or individuals. We have a right to private medical records based on the HIPPAA guideline.
Rather than wasting billions of dollars on electronic health records, the focus ought to be on guaranteeing quality health care for all Americans as a birthright. The insurance industry has sent 6,000 corporate lobbyists to Capitol Hill and spent nearly a billion dollars to influence Congress’s health ‘insurance’ legislation. The public supports universal, single-payer health care, but the health care legislation the insurance industry wrote is going to force each of us to buy insurance instead. “Adverse drug reaction” (better described as “pharmaceutical poisoning”) is the third-leading cause of death; and
Preventable mistakes kill as many as 98,000 people in hospitals every year, with another 300,000 people injured due to medical errors. We need strong patient and consumer safety protections.
Local governments are in a unique position to get to the root of the problem by creating community health care systems that emphasize prevention and ensure access to the cost-saving and effective care provided by naturopaths, midwives and integrative physicians.
Allow individual states to establish SIngle Payer- improved and expanded Medicare, address ERISA laws,and lower Medicare eligibilty to 50. Vision, dental and hearing need to be included in Medicare, and the donut hole must be closed now. Obamacare is a bailout for insurance/Pharma/Wall Street, and will do nothing in terms of ensuring people have access to comprehensive health care as a human right, but rather institutionalizes all the inequalities and dysfunction, and unsustainability we currently have.
The national electronic health records will be the death knell of the FDA and the pharmadrug companies. Everyone will have access to see the disaster brought about by the pharmadrugs. it is actually the only way to determine true stats about the millions who are crippled and killed by NSAIDs, Statins, warfarins, etc. . As it is now, there is no way to have decent stats on short and long term effects of these drugs. The AMA and the FDA have set themselves up to have the emergency room forms overlap toxicity from drugs with toxicity from anything else. There is one fill- in box for all, then, down the line, where nobody actually fills out, there is a distinction being made between prescription drugs and other substances. However, these last boxes are never filled out. Besides the emergency room drug toxicity records, this open record will have the effect that anyone can draw stats on long term effects of drugs, such as liver, kidney, heart attack, strokes. We sacrifice privacy for truth in pharmadrug healthcare.
Elena N. Marcus
Tell them NUTS!!!!! My privecy is a personal issue—-not ther.s!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that the national electronic record system that is being proposed is a flagrant violation of privacy rights. I am totally opposed to it even if our privacy rights are guaranteed. I am tired of the government trying to violate individuals’ privacy. It is not right, and it is not what our founding fathers were intending for this country.
I value my privacy too highly to support electronic health records regulation/legislation. I do not wish to have my health records available to multiple parties other than my doctors and insurers.
Fed gov isn’t interested in protecting the privacy of the doctors or the patients. Even if they were, they CAN NOT do it. Any time any agency wanted to gather info, they would get the records just like they do your phone calls, your emails, your social networks.
Giving them another huge data base is simply not wise.
I am NOT opposed ~ by definition ~ to electronic health records. However I am TOTALLY opposed to anyone owning them except the individual patient. Such records should be on a smart card, carried by each person ~ not circulating around the internet and “borrowed” by government, employers and insurance companies ~ to be used for all of their own sick, big-brother, greedy and destructive purposes ~ TOTALLY UN-MONITORABLE BY ANYONE. For once stuff goes electronic, it’s PUBLIC.
There’s no safeguard for privacy of ANY sort once records are in ANYONE’s “system.”
This means that e-med-records should be ONLY on our own smart cards. And that hospital systems can ONLY read such data, not copy or store it. Anyone who wants any other system needs to re-read George Orwell. For America is becoming more and more an information-managed, corporate Fascist state. Add our financial, credit and other private data with our medical records, and we are sitting ducks for government terrorism of many kinds. In case this sounds “paranoid,” the old statement applies: “We may feel paranoid, but also, they ARE out to get us.”
Electronic Medical Records will add to the cost of healht care besides being a MAJOR invasion of my basic right to PROVACY. Just think of the implications if someone’s medical record is hacked by lets say for example a bank or auto ins company who could base rates on health. What about those of us that want the FREEDOM to choose alternative NATURAL remedies to what ails us.
Electronic Medical Records will make health care more impersonal than it already is—it will not stop assembly-line-medicine.
my husband’s one dr has new emr system—it does not expedite lab results —-dr even gave my husband a copy of labs that were done mths ago—not the most recent labs
I find this an appalling idea, not only is it an invasion of our privacy, by the way, what happened to the Hipaa laws???? I also feel this will put many of us out of work, just what the country needs, more people without work. This entire Healther Care plan of this Democratic party is totally against everything this country stands for. Stop it NOW, give our country back!!!
Medical privacy should be inviolate. We must protect it at all costs. Electronic records are easily hacked and not easily guarded. Please protect one of our few remaining freedoms and personal rights.