Posted on 04/17/2015 11:11:05 AM PDT by Rona Badger
Physicians are now required to care more about billing codes than your personal care.
That’s right; over the last few years doctors have been forced into ignoring their sacred Hippocratic Oath. The US government and the insurance mafia have put their whips into the backs of physicians. Electronic medical records (EMRs) regulations, a key component of Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), require doctors to quiz patients about matters which often have nothing to do with the care of their patients.
The data which the government demands (but does not pay the doctors to collect) all merges into various government databases, namely those of the NSA, police, military, FBI, insurance companies, Medicare, hospital administrators and many entities who are deliberately exempted from participating in HIPPA.
The growing pile of problems with EMRs haven’t been lost on the legal crowd either. Lucas Mearian’s recent article, “Lawyers Smell Blood in Electronic Medical Records,” points out the potential for millions of dollars in judgments for plaintiffs suing “because the data contained in an EMR couldn’t be trusted in court.”
Your privacy is a joke. Are you laughing? So, what does the government want to know about you?
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Hippocratic Oath?
Doctors today take an oath to the State.
Tomorrow, their oath will be to not even wash
their hands for dhimmis beneath them (like in UK).
Heh, perfect. I’d like to see the agent in your photo wearing one of those temple mirrors with an Obama logo stuck to it.
Old news. Medical professionals at all levels have been forced to serve the requirements of the Federal government and the choking yoke of its forms long before we ever get to provide care for a patient. This has been going on for a few decades.
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This has been going on for a few decades.
Riiight. But, not to THIS extent. Electronic transfer of your medical info to NUMEROUS government agencies...that have NOTHING to do with medical *care*.
..and all thid time I thought he was goa’ Ould.
Riiight. But, not to THIS extent. Electronic transfer of your medical info to NUMEROUS government agencies...that have NOTHING to do with medical *care*.
Absolutely correct, not to this extent. And even if it is "old" news, it's STILL completely awful.
“Absolutely correct, not to this extent. And even if it is “old” news, it’s STILL completely awful. “
Yup! During a 20 minute appointment, my doctor spends more than half of the visit typing crap into his computer. And that’s after the nurse has taken vitals and typed all of that in as well. It’s a disgrace! The medical “profession” has morphed into a bunch of clerk typists. The other thing one has to do is ( provided you have access, and luckily I do ) peruse your records to see what they are inputting and make them make required corrections that you question.
The other thing that’s happened is their questions about your life that are totally unrelated to the process of maintaining your health. Now, like the cops, you don’t discuss most things with your doctor because he is a government agent and he’s subservient to the government and not to you.
We have already seen the blatant cronyism of Obamacare in its favorable treatment of the elected representatives who created it. This article points in the direction of the destruction of the entire healthcare system by the black markets and workarounds which will inevitably be spawned by a cumbersome and ultimately arbitrary scheme for the distribution healthcare services.
Socialists in the creation of their grand schemes are motivated by a desire to impose equality. We might consider the Soviet Union as an example of a system which purported to worship equality but actually resulted in a very distorted two-tier system for elitists and for the disfavored. As the system inevitably becomes more and more bureaucratically oppressive in its drive for equality the disfavored inevitably find ways into a black market or some other workaround. Not everyone in Venezuela today cannot get toilet paper.
David Halberstam, although a liberal, wrote a brilliant book entitled, All the Best and Brightest in which he described how Secretary of Defense McNamara's drive to feed data to his Whiz Kids to win the war by numbers actually resulted in subordinate military officers cooking the books, especially body counts. He noted that McNamara achieve did the same perverse results at Ford Motors. Inevitably, both doctors and patients will be motivated to give the government the data the government wants, the data the government rewards, and they will contrive the right symptoms in the right subjective diagnoses to qualify for payments. The distortions will feed on themselves and grow on themselves until the whole system, like the Soviet Union, crashes of its own ponderousness. In the meantime, grand decisions by our bureaucratic masters about what kind of health care we get or whether we get any at all will be determined on the basis of a growing dung pile of phony data.
I completely concur. Those who don’t start out with the premise that all men are created equal will be hellbent on imposing it on others based on standards that stem from their own egoist and altruistic concepts masked by a hidden agenda to profit by power and/or riches.
What is NOT new is that the data which is being collected is done in the name of “evidence based” medicine.....in other words the data gathered is being transformed into a recipe book for doctors to follow lest they risk not being paid...or, worse! If the data is bad....the treatment will be bad...or worse!
Yep, you may have a doc in your family....but if he she writes a script, the pharmacies and State medical boards track what meds are written, for whom and by what doctor.
Believe me, the spooks have got this covered nearly completely: like the tax codes, every conceivable angle has been examined: unless you’re in the 1%: then, there are no laws or consequences.
Don’t blame the docs....they are victims of the system. What a shame after decades of education.
Doctors have been enlisted to discover your inner most business, fears, weaknesses, habits etc.
My advice is to tell them as little as possible. Their requirement is to check the boxes. Just answer NO.....and let’s work at a grass roots level to defeat these monsters.
“My advice is to tell them as little as possible.”
Excellent advice! Any question directed at you by your physician should be directly related to the reason for your visit. And you need to realize that many doctors think collecting extraneous information about you is a good thing.
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