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wait till ICD-10 gets implemented. Instead of being coded 466.0 for "bronchitis", you will be coded 3W5K95.3 for Bronchitis induced by smoking cigarettes while voting republican and owning a gun. I am not making this up. The new system will imbed so much personal data in the code alone that you will no longer have any privacy. My biggest beef as a doctor is that insurance companies make their insured go get physicals and then collect the biometric and lab data. That is a total breach of the doctor patient relationship. Think about that the next time your employer makes you get a wellness physical.

The government guarantees health care coverage via Medicare. Now we are shocked that the payor is interested in the habits of the populace? The good news, sort of, is that the entirety of the system will fail under its own weight and helping step on it are doctors who will all rebuke being told to work for less than their value.

What to do? Eat less and move more.

Wow......now I'm a unit. Who'd a thunk it?

What you probably don't realize is that this began many years ago in Seattle, Washington, not Massachusetts and certainly not Washington, DC.

The first to go through this reclassification was actually a union worker who periodically took advantage of the union-negotiated medical benefits. However, he was not even 70 but was much younger when they dehumanized him by referring to him as a "unit." In fact, given his unusual height (6' 10"), they actually modified the nomenclature and began referring to the gentleman, Mr. Randall Johnson, as . . . wait for it . . . "The "Big Unit."

Look it up. It's true.

uh...KF, I think you should check the accuracy of this person's understanding and interpretation of her experience.

Don't fall into Akin's trap of believing something someone told him without checking it out further.

Medical records have been computerized for quite some time.

Any sense of privacy and security she imagined were pretty much imagined. Her friends and family still don't have access without her permission unless they are first rate hackers.

Obamacare does not kick in until 2014. I don't know she experienced.

numerous aspects of the Affordable Health Care Act were implemented immediately, some were grandfathered without full understanding of how to implement them. Saying it "does not kick in until 2014" is ignorant.

Medical records have been computerized but that's not the writer's concern. The healthcare bill mandates sharing of individual's records in the states' exchanges which is provided through the federal Department of Health and Human Services. HHS has full authority over those records and share those records with the IRS, Homeland Security, etc. Additionally it provides for HHS to make broad healthcare policy decisions (like an individual insurance company) that would affect the individual based on their healthcare record and not on the physicians recommendations. This is the mechanism that is supposedly there to lower healthcare costs.

How soon after the reading of the bill here has led to such misunderstanding.

Don't fall into Akin's trap of believing something someone told him without checking it out further.

You've obviously fallen right into Akin's trap of believing you know better.

You think Frank Zappa had Obamacare in mind when he named his kid Moon Unit?

6:54; Can you elaborate on your remark re an employer 'making you get a wellness physical'?

LOL 10:01....that's a good one...very funny! Obama must be defeated in November or we are all screwed! Even more important than turning over Obamacare is getting someone in office who will strengthen and not weaken our relationship with Israel.

If you take a close look at what's going on over there, we are very close to witnessing a situation which could trigger the beginning of the end. I'll leave it at that as I don't like to get to much into doomsday talk because only God knows the time of the end. However, even the Bible tells you that there will be signs and I believe some of those are blatantly staring us in the face!

9:50 That part doesn't kick in until 2014 (or never if your organization keeps getting a waiver). Mississippi has not set up an exchange yet, so how can her records be shared as your note cliams?

Again, I don't know what she experienced but an electronic health record, although it will be used in Obamacare (unless repealed), is not currently being used for hat purpose because the infrastructure does not exist.

10:29, your facts are getting in the way of a really good rant. Please take it somewhere else. Next thing you know, someone will mention that health insurance companies have maintained these electronic databases for decades.

Our government (at the direction of the insurance industry) is doing some very scary things, but Obama (like most politicians) is just a pawn. The Repubs, who, coincidentally, have the same campaign contributors, are totally "on board" with data mining, too.

But keep fighting the white/black, Republican/Democrat, gay/straight, Christian/other fight until the real people you should be fighting against take everything from you.

I'm not persuaded by either side's arguments this five minutes.

But, 10:59 am has a point . If the federal government can't keep Wikileaks from learning their secrets, why do on earth would anyone believe anything about you on a computer is " secure"?

And, y'all might ought to have worried about government access to information that HAD been protected before all the Homeland Security laws went into effect.

But, REALLY, long ago, from the doctor's lounge to their wives' ears to the grapevine " violated" privacy before before there were computers!

You all let me know how you're going to get this horse back in the barn!

Can't wait to read DonnerKay's health records.

I'm confused by her reaction. It seems she's been hiding under a rock where medical records are concerned. Not only are the majority of records now scanned electronically and kept in online vaults but the MIB keeps a detailed comprehensive medical history based on medical billing codes. MIB maintains a record on almost everyone who has applied for an individually underwritten life, health, critical illness, disability or long term care insurance policy within the last 14 years.

I took my son to the doctor the other day and had to fill out some new forms. Something about who I would allow to be granted access to his medical records. I think you could choose or choose to not provide access. Is this what she is talking about? Not sure what she is talking about. Not sure she is sure what she is talking about.

Some of you obviously have not read the ACA.
Statistics will be kept to track various health issues but not the individuals names on the shared records. Medical records have been computerized for years. Any doctor affiliated with a hospital can access the patients records and vice versa. The medical insurance companies can also access.
The ACA will actually improve medical care and strengthen Medicare, notwithstanding what some will claim..Comments without reading the bill are usually out of bounds.
As for the commentator referencing Israel you have missed the boart and have drunk the koolaide.

this bears repeating, especially to those that suggest others read the bill that had to be passed before we knew what was in it:

The healthcare bill mandates sharing of individual's records in the states' exchanges which is provided through the federal Department of Health and Human Services. HHS has full authority over those records and share those records with the IRS, Homeland Security, etc. Additionally it provides for HHS to make broad healthcare policy decisions (like an individual insurance company) that would affect the individual based on their healthcare record and not on the physicians recommendations. This is the mechanism that is supposedly there to lower healthcare costs.

The data to be shared is raw claims data for use in determining individual actuarial risks. It is said that for effective individual risk adjustment, creating practical ways to aggregate the increasingly detailed individual health care record that allows for the kind of flexibility that is required in the heterogeneous environment in which the exchanges will be launched, is necessary to implementation of bill's goals.

"As for the commentator referencing Israel you have missed the boart and have drunk the koolaide."

Really? Did I miss the "boart"? I suggest you try reading the Bible, you might learn something. Learning how to spell would be a good start....so you can actually understand what it is you are trying to read!

Fletch, Oh I can spell just fine. Little typo and you try to make your response about that. I know quite well how to read and also to understand what I read. I rely on my eyes and my mind not what some John Bircher want to be tells me.
I have read the Bible many times and understand clearly the path laid out for believers in our Lord and Savior. That path does not include excluding anyone, does not leave the beaten man in the ditch, feeds the hungry, cares for all of our fellow man. Also driving the money lenders out of the temple which clearly equates to the greedy that would subjugate the poor and the middle class. I am wealthy with blessings beyond belief. The ACA provides for care of many more people than the prior system and the system that the Republicans would take this country back to. The USA is the greatest country in the world but we are way down the line as far as our healthcare.

9:05.....you are right....we should simply follow the role of Greece and fall into the same trap they did by continuing to give people a reason to do NOTHING in return for something!

However, that having been said, my comment about the Bible had absolutely zero to do with that. Rather, as I said in the original post, the Bible points out that while no man shall know the end of time.....the wise man (Believer) will see signs.

Now, without going into great depth, for example, knowledge will increase, people will travel to and fro, people will seek the word of God but shall not find it. In other words, many will believe they are following the Bible but it will be the words of false prophets, exactly as the Bible predicted. If you'd like further information on any of this I'd be glad to give you some stats but don't ask unless you think you can handle the truth.

When I mention false prophets I am not talking about merely individuals. I am talking about the many religions that distort the truth of the Bible for their own agenda!

Amazingly, on the one hand, you seem like an intelligent, reasonable person. Yet, at the same time you come down on me about my resonse to your post and how I made it "All about your typo". Seriously? Your post had absolutely NOTHING to do with me until the final sentence in which you said...."As for the commentator referencing Israel you have missed the boart and have drunk the koolaide."

Exactly how am I supposed to respond to that? You called me out pal?....not the other way around!

Another thing 9:05.....we are way down the line as far as our healthcare goes....WTF...seriously? I guess that's why we have everyone else in the World coming over here for all of the approved procedures and everyone over here going over there for the experimental procedures....right?

Get a freakin' clue! Perhaps one day, when you are older, you will get your dream and it will be "FREE" healthcare for all. you will be sitting in the waiting room for 6 hours straight before the nurse comes out and informs you that based on what's best for the country as a whole, you are not worth saving....SORRY....you are too old!

There is no such thing as "Free" healthcare....unless you want to give up certain rights....like your right to live!

Never said anything about free healthcare.

As for being older-how old might that be? I may be older than you and given your rant I may be wiser. Your statements about our healthcare are right out of the right wing playbook. This is the John Birch script to the letter currently funded by the sons of one of the founders of the JBS. Ask any Canadian they don't wait hours to see a doctor or months for a necessary procedure. They may wait for elective surgery.
As to your comment about Israel-I am sorry but I disagree with your interpretation of our President's support of Israel.

3:41....I have too many friends who are doctors so it's more like....right out of the doctor playbook! And if you really think it's so much better elsewhere then by all means, please LEAVE and go live there! No, you never said anything about free healthcare...you didn't have to after you said we were way down the line as far as healthcare goes. What the Hell else would that have meant? It sure as Hell can't be about the quality of our doctors as we have the best and the most advanced procedures in the World!

"As to your comment about Israel-I am sorry but I disagree with your interpretation of our President's support of Israel."

Huh? What freakin' support of Isael? You have got to be kidding me! The so-called president is a Bafoon who needs not let the door hit him in the ass on the way out. You can do the same when you decide to pack for Canada!

Here you go 3:41....

Rick Baker helps people, and sometimes even saves lives. He describes a man who had a seizure and received a diagnosis of epilepsy. Dissatisfied with the opinion—he had no family history of epilepsy, but he did have constant headaches and nausea, which aren’t usually seen in the disorder—the man requested an MRI. The government told him that the wait would be four and a half months. So he went to Baker, who arranged to have the MRI done within 24 hours—and who, after the test discovered a brain tumor, arranged surgery within a few weeks.

Baker isn’t a neurosurgeon or even a doctor. He’s a medical broker, one member of a private sector that is rushing in to address the inadequacies of Canada’s government care. Canadians pay him to set up surgical procedures, diagnostic tests, and specialist consultations, privately and quickly. “I don’t have a medical background. I just have some common sense,” he explains. “I don’t need to be a doctor for what I do. I’m just expediting care.”

Rick Baker helps people, and sometimes even saves lives. He describes a man who had a seizure and received a diagnosis of epilepsy. Dissatisfied with the opinion—he had no family history of epilepsy, but he did have constant headaches and nausea, which aren’t usually seen in the disorder—the man requested an MRI. The government told him that the wait would be four and a half months. So he went to Baker, who arranged to have the MRI done within 24 hours—and who, after the test discovered a brain tumor, arranged surgery within a few weeks.

Baker isn’t a neurosurgeon or even a doctor. He’s a medical broker, one member of a private sector that is rushing in to address the inadequacies of Canada’s government care. Canadians pay him to set up surgical procedures, diagnostic tests, and specialist consultations, privately and quickly. “I don’t have a medical background. I just have some common sense,” he explains. “I don’t need to be a doctor for what I do. I’m just expediting care.”

Rick Baker helps people, and sometimes even saves lives. He describes a man who had a seizure and received a diagnosis of epilepsy. Dissatisfied with the opinion—he had no family history of epilepsy, but he did have constant headaches and nausea, which aren’t usually seen in the disorder—the man requested an MRI. The government told him that the wait would be four and a half months. So he went to Baker, who arranged to have the MRI done within 24 hours—and who, after the test discovered a brain tumor, arranged surgery within a few weeks.

Baker isn’t a neurosurgeon or even a doctor. He’s a medical broker, one member of a private sector that is rushing in to address the inadequacies of Canada’s government care. Canadians pay him to set up surgical procedures, diagnostic tests, and specialist consultations, privately and quickly. “I don’t have a medical background. I just have some common sense,” he explains. “I don’t need to be a doctor for what I do. I’m just expediting care.”

That was from "The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care" by David Gratzer....the headline read..."Socialized medicine has meant rationed care and lack of innovation. Small wonder Canadians are looking to the market."

Have fun in Canada...

My Biloxi born 2nd trimester pregnant niece miscarried in the bathroom of a Canadian hospital emergency room after 11 hours waiting to see a doctor. It would have been her 2nd child, her 1st a perfectly normal uneventful vaginal birth. Her Canadian husband was nearly arrested by intolerant Canadian authorities due to his frustration, anguish and rage as the completely avoidable episode unfolded. A Canadian police officer stood nearby in the hallway as she miscarried in that bathroom. She has given birth to 2 more children since that terrible day each time crossing the border to have the delivery in Seattle. They subsequently relocated to Portland, Oregon. Any person who tells you the Canadian healthcare system doesn't have long waits for even basic needs doesn't know what they are talking about.

5:16....I'm sorry about your loss. I knew this, you know it from experience and yet....jerk wads who don't have a freakin' clue have to pipe in their misinformed opinions!!! It is Utterly AMAZING that anyone breathing could defend Obama....once again proving....man is not created equal when it comes to the human brain!