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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Dan Gainor :: Townhall.com Columnist
We Are a Part of an Indoctri-Nation
by Dan Gainor
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


Imagine that, to be in a fight for your life only to have your privacy invaded as well. ABC News reported that a former employee of UCLA Medical Center pled guilty to selling Farrah’s medical records, along with those of Britney Spears and other celebrities to the National Enquirer. In all nearly 1,000 people had their records invaded.

It’s really nothing new. Palm Beach County, Florida officials seized Rush Limbaugh’s media records in a Big Government fashion. Other snooping incidents have impacted California First Lady Maria Shriver and even Octomom Nadya Suleman.

The problem isn’t just with medical records, it’s electronic records of all kinds. All three final presidential candidates – Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain – had data invasions through the State Department. Obama questioner Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher had someone dig through his Ohio records. And someone else broke into VP candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail.

Feeling better about the savings from electronic medical records? Maybe until you realize your dental assistant can check your psychiatric records or until you realize government will soon know all of your personal medical information.

This is how Obama plans to “save” money, by exposing your entire life to every disgruntled minimum-wage office worker in the entire health-care monstrosity. Electronic data breaches will no longer be confined to just the location of an office. People will be able to snoop nationwide. And the media are virtually silent about this danger.

At least supporters are right about one aspect of our new Indoctri-nation, it does have the word “doc” in it, and that’s about as close as it comes to being about improving health care.

Dan Gainor is The Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Center’s Vice President for Business and Culture. His column appears each week on The Fox Forum and he can be seen each Thursday on Foxnews.com’s “Strategy Room.”

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Dan Gainor is The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow and director of the Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute.
 
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Most Americans agree that we

should improve our healthcare system. Two areas concern Americans most. One is the number of insured Americans. The other is the steadily increasing costs of maintaining our current system.

These two problems appear to require opposite solutions. It appears to insure more people will cost us more money. Do we have any other options. Yes we do.

These other options are to make incremental changes, observe the results from these incremental changes and then continue to fine tune the system over the years.

I know of few Americans who want to leave the country to obtain better healthcare. From that, it is safe to surmise that the quality of care provided by our current system is not the issue.

Ms Kelly, very astute! Anyone seen
those idiotic commercials for GE and IBM about how they are going to put your medical records together to design a cure just for you?? Anyone buying that nonsense and doesn't know that they will use that information to deny you treatment instead?? And the morons on the left are still kissing the One's rearend and can't see the writing on the wall!!
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