And not only do they care, they want to know all the details. We already know that Los Federales want to know about so many other things in your life, like whether you’re enjoying your 2nd Amendment Rights (not mandatory, but the Feds recommend asking), every single bit of financial information, and other bits of your life, and this data will surely be shared across multiple federal and state agencies. And, can we really trust the IRS to not Do Something with the data it collects? Here’s something else they want (via Drudge, which features the below photo)
(NY Post) ‘Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?â€
Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law.
“This is nasty business,†says New York cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski. He called the sex questions “insensitive, stupid and very intrusive.†He couldn’t think of an occasion when a cardiologist would need such information — but he knows he’ll be pushed to ask for it.
The president’s “reforms†aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients’ records confidential.
Medical centers will also be forced to ask questions about drug use, which, all together, aren’t necessarily questions some doctors may need to ask (consider your primary care giver), but this information will be shared with the Government using their one click upload of data, and medical offices can be fined if they do not share all this info about Medicaid and Medicare patients starting in 2015, and lose incentives if they do not share the info about all patients.
The government recommends you pay cash if you do not want this info in their hands. Who has cash in the Obameconomy?
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.
Honestly, whoever comes up with this “scandal” shit seems to have NEVER been to a doctor. As if we all haven’t been asked this question before…
It’s not about being asked, it’s about the doctors being told by Government that they must not only ask, but report the answers to the government, which goes into a database, and God only knows what they will do with it.