Sunday, October 09, 2011

Obamacare will put patients' records at risk
...As part of its implementation of Obamacare, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a new federal regulation to require private health insurance companies to give the government all of the health records of every person they insure. The rule is shrouded in the usual bureaucratese, but, as Huelskamp pointed out in a Washington Examiner op-ed, "abstract terms are used to distract from the real objectives of this idea: no matter which 'option' is chosen, government bureaucrats would have access to the health records of every American -- including you."

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claims the government must have the records in order to evaluate the performance of health insurers....