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Goodbye to Health Care Privacy
When the government takes over the health care system, bureaucrats will want to know whether you have a government-mandated health insurance policy when getting care. If you don’t, you’ll face a penalty.

Cornell law school professor William A. Jacobson writes that under both the House and Senate plans, the IRS will serve as the enforcer of the rules against individual taxpayers. Doctors will have to report to the IRS the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and coverage periods of their patients....