“I’m going to flat out lie about it every time...”
That’s what my husband and I do now. If you don’t essentially lie.. I am not sure what they do with the “data”. Does it go off to the government? Are you put on some sort of “list?”
LOL...if you are posting here; you’re already on a ‘list’.
Considering that even before Obamacare was voted on in Congress, Obama was calling for medical records to be digitized(centralized for easy government access across agencies) my guess is everything you tell your doctor will be, if not already, accessible by government beauracrats at all levels. If it currently isn’t, it certainly will be. Another individual responding likewise to my earlier post accurately pointed out that it can become a defacto form of registration.
Actually, that’s a good question and good reason for the MD in the article to have his credentials removed.
Yes, everything which goes into your medical histories may now be entered into the patient healthcare record, which is intended to be immediately accessible to all healthcare practitioners in the healthcare system.
This includes Hospital admissions, insurance, labs, emergency rooms, doctor’s groups, pharmacies, and the patient. It is intended to be a life-long record, if not possibly longer for statistical evaluation.
Entries into the record include notes by assistants which might include off-the-cuff remarks by the patient, which in the future might reveal a trend in mental degeneration. If a patient repeatedly curses out or threatens the healthcare provider, some might use that as evidence to either deny service or worse as evidence of a mental disorder to justify state action to institutionalize a patient.
The point to be made is this record has in the past raised serious privacy issues. Advocates assert the record is required to be able to properly assess a patient’s condition in an emergency or during some medical procedures.
Such a mechanism would also afford those with ulterior goals to use the system as a library of dossiers on the entire population.