Obama Wants Your Healthcare Records

I wasn't into this article one paragraph when the noun "Obamacare" first appeared, telling my feeble over 65 year mind that here we go, another hatchet job by yet another over paid political hack. However, since I'm a real punishment glutton I decided to read on to see just how bad it could get. Phew - there's absolutely nothing in this mass of disorganized and unsubstantiated vituperation that warrants serious attention. My question to Mr. Roff is "Where you been, man, for the past 50 or so years? Ever heard of Medicare?" You know, that Government run health organization where, if you're enrolled (all of us over 65 are, by the way) you are able to access you FULL MEDICAL HISTORY via the internet day or night - as are your care givers, thank God. Particularly in case of sudden heart attack, stroke, or just heavy indigestion. One has to wonder whether your objective was to enlighten, or to rally the crowd on the right to sweat and indignation while perhaps at the same time burnishing your "journalist" credentials. Hmm.

Jim Newman of CO 8:46PM September 27, 2011

IMS already has them and sells them to anyone that asks. So what is the difference?

Huck Finn of MA 5:57PM September 27, 2011

It's a frightening prospect, any way you look at it? No, it isn't. The government's information security is no more or less inept than the private sector's information security. If the process enables doctors to have a more complete view of a patient's health history, then it can only help. This article is nothing more than a sad attempt to cast the law into the worst light possible, with no regard for reason, evidence or logical argument. You barely take the time to back up anything, and when you do so, you do it weakly and without skill.

Lawrence of UT 2:51PM September 27, 2011