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Posted: Jun 20, 2013
Not only will the IRS and Dept. of Health and Human Servies have this info, but the FBI, DHS, and any other agency they feel should have it.
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A new 253-page Obamacare rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care program that will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service.
Protected health information, or PHI, is highly protected under federal law, but the latest ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services allows agencies to trade the information to verify that Obamacare applicants are getting the minimum amount of health insurance coverage they need from the health "exchanges."
The ruling, explained on pages 72-73 of the book-thick guidance, does not mention any requirement that applicants first OK the release of their PHI. HHS already allows some exchange of PHI without an individual's pre-approval, especially when for a "government program providing public benefits." Officials said the swapping of information is simply meant to help figure the best insurance coverge of Obamacare users.
The new ruling surprised some congressional critics. "This sounds as if HHS will have access to protected health info to me," said one top Hill aide worried about how well the administration will protect that information.
Everyone has been saying all along, and it's finally sinking in.... - The Sarge - sm
[ In Reply To ..]OC has nothing to do with health care. Has everything to do with control.
Think the sheople are starting to realize the wool has been pulled over their eyes. Its good to see some of them are being awoken from their stupor they've been in.
Too little too late, unfortunately. - sigh.....
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Sounds like you guys are about ready to join civil libertarians - in our great fight to protect our liberties
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message - from the sheople
[ In Reply To ..]Name calling is abusive or insulting language referred to a person or group, a verbal abuse. This phenomenon is studied by a variety of academic disciplines from anthropology, to child psychology, to politics. It is also studied by rhetoricians, and a variety of other disciplines that study propaganda techniques and their causes and effects. The technique is most frequently employed within political discourse and school systems, in an attempt to negatively impact their opponent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_calling
The best part is that this is just to apply to the (sm) - LM
[ In Reply To ..]exchange. After your information is spread around to all these agencies, you can still be denied. Sounds like a good deal, huh? - not.
No, you cannot be denied. - That's the whole point. nm
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Yes you can. They are already cutting of pre-existing in some states. - Proof?
[ In Reply To ..]nm
You are confusing the high risk pool early enrollment - with
[ In Reply To ..]the ban on denying pre-existing conditions through exchange coverage not set to take effect until 2014. They are not one in the same.
Now you're worried? I have news for you.....sm - VTMT
[ In Reply To ..]Your health information and lots more are already available and being sold by people operating from India and elsewhere. I read a big article about this just last week.
The ACA is now the law, like it or not, and the exchange of information is necessary to assure compliance with the minimum standards of the law.
Yeah, right. - LM
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Not an MY are you? Otherwise, this would not be news to you. nm - VTMT
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Correction MT not MY. Darn tablet incorrect. nm - VTMT
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I was referring to the part of the post where (sm) - LM
[ In Reply To ..]you say it is "necessary". **. Just more control. Meet standard requirements? How is something that is SUBstandard to begin with meet standard requirements? Oxymoron.
Sigh. How many times do we have to - go through this?
[ In Reply To ..]Between 1996 HIPPA's PHI privacy and security guidelines and their expansion in the 2009 HI-TECH Act, GW Bush issued an executive order in 2004 that clearly expressed his concept of the role the federal government should assume in these endeavors. The order specifically allowed for the creation of a "subcabinet level position of health information technology coordinator that would report directly to the Secretary of HHS," at that time Tommy Thompson. HI-TECH provisions are merely an example of the legislative evolution of this initiative. In other words, that train left the station a long time ago.
Obamacare has been extensively debated in Congress and the national dialogue. It was passed in the House and Senate and by the president. It then withstood SCOTUS challenge. It's the law.
The cons exhaustive efforts to conflate the actions of a conservative GOP Cincinnati IRS office manager who requested guidelines for processing tax-exempt status applications submitted by known anti-tax political organizations into a (yawn) full-blown impeachable offense have been considerably impeded. Thanks to the recently publicized investigation transcripts, the emperor has no clothes as he stands before his committee, having been exposed as an evidence-tampering, cherry-picking control freak whose rules of so-called inquiry and disclosure inform us he's not playing with a full deck.
It comes as no surprise that these same cons, whose House reps have recently held their umpteenth OC repeal vote sham, are now trying to relate their phony scandal to ongoing efforts to dismantle the health care law, slated to go into effect next year. The appalling lengths they are willing to go to prevent implementation are only eclipsed by the transparent fear and loathing they display toward OC programs that just might actually be beneficial and cost effective in the delivery of access to health care to all Americans. They would be ill-advised to believe their latest ruse is going to bring success in their efforts to reverse the president's signature legislation.
http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0406/0406.news_launches.html
http://www.claritygrp.com/media/13028/hipaa_hitech_whitepaper_6.7.11_final.pdf
http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/08/08-013.pdf
go through this - CityMouse
[ In Reply To ..]"In his speech, Bush outlined a vision in which an elderly patient with multiple chronic illnesses, fading memory, and poor vision would no longer have to provide personal information each time he sees a new doctor."
Crying shame, almost criminal, that probably greater than 50% of the time that "personal information" is incorrect. :-( particularly if it is being handled by foreigners.
Wow. 50%, huh? - Says who?
[ In Reply To ..]Uninsured in Texas here, with no changes even remotely visible on the horizon anytime soon since our gov has decided there will be no Medicaid expansion or state-run exchanges for HIS subjects. Consequently, I've been receiving my health care for chronic medical conditions (HTN, DBM, DDD and status post lacunar stroke) from the county system, which instituted EMR soon after Obamacare was signed. I've noticed an immediate improvement in all kinds of areas of this overburdened system, such as more efficient pharmacy services, specialty referrals, increased diagnostics, access to educational services, improved communications between doctors, patient and staff and REDUCED WAITING TIMES for appointments and clinic visits. I could care less whose been viewing my records either within or outside the institution, since I have seen improved overall health and peace of mind as a result of these changes.
God knows what will happen to all that progress once these facilities are subjected to the inevitable Medicaid and Medicare funding cuts headed our way thanks to Perry.
Seriously, if I were you, I'd move to a kinder, - Libby
[ In Reply To ..]gentler state, one that cares about its people and their health. I suspect you might not find too many down South, but there are probably states that aren't too far away where you could live a much better life.
I've seen the things that Perry has done, and I have vowed to NEVER visit that state, even though my best friend in the world is originally from there.
And I don't want to hear how I'll be hurting the WORKING people of that state because nobody can hurt them any worse than Perry already has!!
I hope they DO secede from that union because they're an embarrassment to America.
No lily-livered, sidewinding, yellow-bellied, sapsucking - tinhorn of a governor
[ In Reply To ..]could git me to go. I'd rather eat Piney Woods red dirt than to EVER leave Texas. I'm just bidin' my time 'til he heads on back up to Paint Creek/Haskell County where he belongs. In the meantime, there's WAY too much that needs tendin' to down here in Austin, seein' as how the GOP menfolk and their Stepford counterparts are aimin' tuh close up 37 out of 42 abortion clinics statewide, essentially shutting down access to terminations and stripping Texas women of their right to choice.
Nosiree. I'm dug in and stayin' put right where I am.
I have to wonder how many uninsured or - Libby
[ In Reply To ..]underinsured MTs are regular posters on this board and have had their prospective states DECLINE to have healthcare exchanges, while these MTs applaud their congresspeople for voting AGAINST them!!
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