Posted on 09/20/2010 9:43:36 AM PDT by Neil E. Wright
The House last week advanced a bill that would for the first time require federal health officials to ask patients about their sexual orientation and gender identity.
The proposal introduced by Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., the first openly gay woman elected to Congress, cleared a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on a party-line vote Thursday. Republican attempts to block or restrict the measure failed.
Though critics say the move represents an invasion of privacy, the legislation was cast as a way to help federal officials gather data so they can track "health disparities" based on those sexual identity factors.
"This bill is about collecting data. No more, no less," Baldwin said at the hearing last week. She said federal programs generally do not collect this data, and that "as a result we are left with gaping holes in our knowledge on LGBT health."
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How about “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”?
Of course the LGBT will be sicker, but this will be blamed on “disparity of access to health care.” Welcome to the first of a plethora of special interest groups who will attempt to carve out exemptions to the draconian restrictions in Bummercare.
“This bill is about collecting data. No more, no less,” Baldwin said at the hearing last week.
Hogwash. Follow the money.
Come ON Wisconsin!
Get Tammy Baldewin out of Congress!!!
You are embarassing yourselves.
Republicans come off as weak kneed once again imo. Fear of the school sysytem using such garbage is sickening, but it should be fought on every level.
Must ask, must tell!
No entity collects highly personal information unless there's a use for it. Setting up new data collection and analytic programs for all citizens / residents is no small, cheap, or widely acceptable undertaking.
We're here from the government and we've just started a new hobby where we ask probing, personal questions for no reason. It's just for fun, but participation is mandatory.
As long as Obama is running the healthcare system shouldn’t we have a law requiring gay men to wear a condum?
What federal health officials and what patients?
My “gender identity” - as if those two misapplied words actually carry any semantic content in the English language - is “NOYB”. Those guys are great with acronyms, let them figure it out.
btt
That's rhetorical, right???
This from the party that indignantly demands that Republican court nominees recognize a “Constiutional right to privacy.”
I have breasts,I can give birth.....I guess that makes me a woman!
Interesting pinged out discussion here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2592660/posts?page=144
I’m not snarking about two threads about it, I don’t even know which one was “first”! People NEED to know about this crap!
More in the figurative sense (v. the literal), with a touch of /sarc/ thrown in for good measure.
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