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Economic Stimulus Bill Mandates Electronic Health Records for Every Citizen without Opt-out or Patient Consent Provisions

January 29, 2009

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http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/Privacy/EconomicStimulusAndPrivacy2.html

Economic Stimulus Bill Mandates Electronic Health Records
for Every Citizen without Opt-out or Patient Consent Provisions 

 


January 23, 2009

(Washington, DC)—The Institute for Health Freedom (IHF) warns that the economic stimulus bill mandates electronic health records for every citizen without providing for opt-out or patient consent provisions.  “Without those protections, Americans’ electronic health records could be shared—without their consent—with over 600,000 covered entities through the forthcoming nationally linked electronic health-records network,” says Sue A. Blevins, IHF president.

“President Obama has pledged to advance freedom.  Therefore the freedom to choose not to participate in a national electronic health-records system must be upheld,” Blevins says. “Unless people have the right to decide if and when their health information is shared or whether to participate in research studies, they don’t have a true right to privacy.”

IHF calls on Americans who care about health privacy to contact their members of Congress and President Obama to voice their own opinions about the need for opt-out and patient consent provisions, to ensure true patient privacy rights.

Some provisions of the economic stimulus bill include:

* “The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.”

* “The National Coordinator shall perform the duties…consistent with the development of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of information and that…facilitates health and clinical research…”

The federal medical privacy rule promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) already permits the disclosure of personal health information without patient consent for treatment, payment, and oversight of the healthcare system.  IHF has long called for modification of the HIPAA rule to restore patient consent in order to preserve the confidential doctor-patient relationship. The stimulus bill fails to restore patient consent, while at the same time, mandating electronic health records and facilitating the electronic exchange of every American’s health information.

The Institute for Health Freedom is a national nonprofit, educational organization whose mission is to bring the issues of personal health freedom to the forefront of the American health-policy debate. IHF monitors and reports on national policies that affect citizens’ freedom to choose their health-care treatments and providers, and to maintain their health privacy—including genetic privacy. IHF is not affiliated with any other organization. © 2009 Institute for Health Freedom.

http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/Privacy/EconomicStimulusAndPrivacy2.html

CCHC releases “Newborn Rights” notification to assist parents of new babies during hospitalization

January 29, 2009

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CCHC MEDIA RELEASE
Thursday, January 29, 2009
For Immediate Release

CCHC releases “Newborn Rights” notification to
assist parents of new babies during hospitalization

 

Document will help parents protect their baby’s privacy rights related to newborn
genetic testing, and state government storage of and research on newborn DNA


Minneapolis/Saint Paul – To give parents a tangible tool to protect the privacy and civil rights of their newborn babies, Citizens’ Council on Health Care has released a “Newborn Rights” notification document for use during hospitalization.

Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC) also released the following statement from CCHC’s president, Twila Brase:

“Many parents have told us stories of the difficulties they’ve had trying to protect their newborn babies while at the hospital. Often the hospital staff knows nothing about the options parents have under the Minnesota newborn genetic testing law. Most don’t even know about the Minnesota genetic privacy law and its written consent requirements. Some mothers and fathers have awakened to the sound of their baby crying, only to learn that the baby’s blood had already been taken without their consent.

“To help parents protect their children, Citizens’ Council on Health Care is today releasing a notification form for parents to use in the hospital after the delivery of their baby. This simple form can be copied and posted on the door, taped to the bassinet, or placed wherever the parents think best. It can be handed to staff and used by the parents to notify the lab technicians, nurses, and doctors that they want to be contacted before anyone takes blood from their baby’s heel.

“For six years, CCHC has been calling on the Minnesota Department of Health to fully inform parents of their right to protect their newborn’s genetic privacy and DNA property rights. The Department has steadfastly refused. They have also failed to follow the required informed written consent requirements of Minnesota’s genetic privacy law. Last year, they sought to exempt themselves from the law, and when they were unsuccessful, they continued to violate it. To this day, there is no consent form, and the warehousing of baby DNA continues unabated.

“Today, more than 815,000 children have their DNA warehoused in the Minnesota Department of Health and more than 1.5 million children have their genetic testing results in a health department database. Over 52,000 children have been the subjects of genetic research without their parent’s knowledge or consent.

“Until the state health department begins to respect the civil and statutory rights of babies and families, we will do all we can to help parents protect their children’s genetic privacy and DNA property rights before they are stolen by the Minnesota Department of Health.”

FMI:
Twila Brase, President
651-646-8935
info@cchconline.org

– CCHC –

 

Citizens’ Council on Health Care supports freedom for patients and doctors, medical
innovation, and the right to a confidential patient-doctor relationship.

FEMA CAMPS get the green light from a compliant congress

January 29, 2009

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deesfema 

HR 645  National Emergency Centers Act

 

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645

 

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY CENTERS.

 

4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

 

 

 

Here’s the clinker!  All those base closings when we were in the middle of two illegal wars and the 2006 KBR contract awarded to construct or renovate detention centers is all coming about via this bill.  We were closing bases strategically located around the country while being threatened with more attacks from “terrorists”.  Now, didn’t any of you find this even remotely strange?

 

To meet other appropriate needs determined by the Homeland Security Secretary…..and what might those be??  Could they be the “other fast moving programs” KBR cited but didn’t define in 2006 after being awarded that $385 million contract for starters?

 

Under NORTHCOM our own military is being stationed on our streets here at home in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act prohibiting the use of any standing army to be used against the citizens of the United States.  The Army has admitted they are being stationed in part, for “crowd control”.  “Crowd” would be us, I think. 

 

Civilian Inmate Labor Program

http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf

 

Now wouldn’t this just be handy!  Not only will they incarcerate us, we will be forced to provide free forced labor.  From the introduction:

 

[Provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor

programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations.] (emphasis mine)

 

Although this current bill makes this situation sound as if congress is truly concerned with our welfare and is truly wanting to protect and save us from a national emergency, we know it just ain’t so.  We have only to look at those wide open borders, those insecure ports of entry, and the influx of illegal aliens from all parts of the world who enter without so much as a warning shot being fired. 

 

[To meet other appropriate needs] is the same as “and for other purposes” that ends the title of each and every bill proposed.  The intent is the same regardless of which phrase is used……[we have other plans in mind that have nothing to do with the issues stated an which will, most likely, be unconstitutional, dictatorial or such an egregious abuse of power you will most likely vomit when we reveal them].

 

Maybe it is all in how we are defining a national emergency.  When we think of an national emergency it is generally along the lines of forest fires, earthquakes, flooding, storms, or maybe even a physical attack from forces unknown. 

 

When government thinks of a national emergency……..it’s more from the angle of pure fear of the general population.  This is understandable.  After the last 8 years in particular (but not limited to, by any means) of stripping us of our rights, starting wars of aggression, repeated attempts to pass amnesty while the country founders economically, congress voting itself a raise on at least 7 occasions while thousands of Americans lose their jobs daily, millions of home foreclosures while Wall Street gets bailed out with our money, and one string of lies after another about virtually everything the government has been engaged in from the war on terror, to the war on the middle class……I understand.

 

I understand that as Americans, because of our apathy, our lack of attention and our willing submission to fear tactics we have become a spineless herd of sheeple.   Here’s the problem with herd mentality……it only takes one to start a stampede.

 

HR 645 would be more appropriately titled: 

 

National holding Pens: How to control a stampeding herd.

 

This will be another piece of legislation that will be passed over the objections of the same people it claims to represent.  It makes one yearn for the long lost days of public hangings.

 

© 2009 Marti Oakley

 

 

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