Posted on 03/10/2017 8:10:21 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009
stylin19a wrote: ".... I wonder if this is ok under HIPAA?"
THAT IS AN EXCELLENT POINT! HIPPA should be all that is needed to deny sharing personal info without your express consent.
RE: “That’s our good old GOP totalitarians. We leave the revolutionary socialist world, and step into corporate mercantile authoritarianism.
Google and Facebook will quickly offer to buy all the DNA results from employers, who can then legally require it of you. They build a giant national DNA database.
Awesome work guys./s”
+1000
You and some others here fully get it.
Boy will we old cranks have fun telling future youngsters how things got to be so Eff’ed up on our watch...
We should start immediately with CONGRESS, We the People, Your EMPLOYER Demand it. Then ALL Public Employees Nationwide.
We the People, Your EMPLOYER Demand It.
I think that’s Virginia Foxx R-NC
This is one example of where the fact that the Left has gone completely batsh** insane really hurts us.
If they were in any way rational you’d see a very broad coalition come together and push back at this in a way that would have them soiling their britches on Capitol Hill.
I don’t think many Liberals want their genetic profiles being shuffled around either.
Lemme guess...they are exempt from this right?
This is a terrible bill not just re the genetic illness traits.
There are too many super rich and evil people like George $oreA$$, the Obamas, the Opecker Princes, the Clintoons and Silicon Valley CEO’s, who would abuse these lists to find donors (kind word) to cure certain diseases in their bodies or their families.
These DNA tests could set up non volunteer donor lists of body parts like livers, hearts, Kidneys, lungs, eyes and other organs.
Hipaa is a joke and offers little assurance that personal health data is not indiscriminately shared.
I urge Everyone here to look at how 8000+ healthcare entities share your medical information without guarantee of anonymizing your medical record data.
SEE: thedatamap.org
Congress refuses to address this privacy issue because data brokers, insurance, and medical entities make Billions off of your data.
Gov’t likes the easy access, too.
Your DNA isn't “pure”? Then no employment for you!
This is what happens when you tie health insurance to employment, and let the government meddle with the healthcare industry.
The real insult is that the government, business, politicians, lobbyists, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies are all in collusion to foist this upon Americans.
Healthcare is one of the last cash cow industries that has yet to be bled dry.
This isn't about your personal health or well-being, this is about squeezing as much cash out of the dwindling middle class as they can tolerate.
The solution is to go back to where employers are not responsible. All other courses are problematic including this bill. The explosion of cost in healthcare can be traced back to this giant mistep made decades ago....and every policy to built on this foundational mistake has made matters worse.
Time to alter or abolish fedgov.
And people wonder why employers lay off all their staff and hire contractors instead — even foreign ones. Let the contractors worry about their own genetic defects. If the guy shows up to work one day with a foot growing out of his forehead, you send him home and get another contractor in his place.
Let’s track this down the road aways.
As this procedure becomes more common, it’s reasonable to presume the process will become more efficient. That will soon create a modern day leper colony of folks that insurance companies won’t touch.
In addition, it would also seem logical that “circumstances” will arise making it necessary to test citizens earlier and earlier in their life span. In the name of public interest, you know.
How long before genetic testing of fetuses leads to mandatory abortions in order to “save money” for medical providers?
That slippery slope just got a lot more slippery.
“sharing personal info without your express consent. “
If you sign up for our “wellness program” we’ll cut your premiums by $500 and give you a $200 Amazon gift card! You do need to sign our four-page online “agreement” form, then you are in!
There you go- people will sign to get the benefit without reading the 4 page consent form, and since they consented, by signature, to share certain health metrics with the employer’s contracted service, HIPPA is satisfied.
Giving employees who comply a cash benefit or premium reduction is the same as charging those who do not comply.
The whole genetic theory of disease is bull crap anyway. People may be more susceptible to some diseases based on their genetics but it is by no means predestined, not by a long shot.
You are right. I misread it. Still BOOOOOOOOO.
So you’re actually in favor of government intervention in matters of private businesses and individuals. Sorry, but I missed read your earlier post. You agree government should interfere so long as you agree with it.
HIPPA requires express agreement - hence the reason for the pharmacist requiring your signature for every Rx filled.
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