Betsy McCaughey<\/a> in the New York Post.<\/p>\nTopics include asking whether a patient is sexually active, and if so, with what number of partners. Whether a person has same-sex partners is also an area the feds want to know about.<\/p>\n
And don\u2019t forget to add in the required questions about a person\u2019s drug history.<\/p>\n
Combine this with all the routine yet highly sensitive health information people share with their doctor, and you\u2019ve got the makings for a single-source document that could ruin someone\u2019s life if made public.<\/p>\n
To do this, ObamaCare uses financial pressure to compel doctors to participate. Answers go into federally mandated electronic health records. Highly portable, the records can be accessed and shared among regulators.<\/p>\n
Resistance won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoctors and hospitals who don\u2019t comply with the federal government\u2019s electronic-health-records-requirements forgo incentive payments now; starting in 2015, they\u2019ll face financial penalties from Medicare and Medicaid,\u201d according to McCaughey. \u201cThe Department of Health and Human Services has already paid out over $12.7 billion for these incentives.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s just going to get worse.<\/p>\n
Best advice: Try to convince your doctor to keep two sets of books. One that\u2019s real; the other for the Feds.<\/p>\n
ObamaCare: Bringing people together in opposition to their government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New York Civil Liberties Union and the Goldwater Institute are both warning of dire threats to privacy if ObamaCare\u2019s financial incentives and penalties on doctors aren\u2019t changed soon. The health law\u2019s \u2018reforms\u2019 \u201caim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4014,4274,4273,3308,232,235,4272,35,801,300],"class_list":["post-18876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-care","tag-civil-liberties","tag-doctor","tag-health","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-medicine","tag-obamacare","tag-privacy","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18876"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18883,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876\/revisions\/18883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}