Soon to be the new “Net Neutrality”, wherein the left will argue for it, even though it will harm you, because it’s “for your own good.”
Federal ‘Biosurveillance’ Plan Seeking Direct Access to Americans’ Private Medical Records
The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance†system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of national security, according to Twila Brase, a public health nurse and co-founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is currently seeking public comment on a 52-page draft of the proposed “National Health Security Strategy 2015-2018†(NHSS).
“Health situational awareness includes biosurveillance and other health and non-health inputs (e.g., lab/diagnostics, health service utilization, active intelligence, and supply chain information), as well as systems and processes for effective communication among responders and critical health resource monitoring and allocation,†the draft states.
But Brase warns that the NHSS proposal would allow the federal government to monitor an individual’s behavior before, during and after any government-defined health “incident†– which could be anything from a local outbreak of the flu to a terrorist anthrax attack.
“It’s very broad. It doesn’t seem to have any limits, except they say something about, you know, properly protecting the data. But from our perspective, if the government gets access to this kind of data, [and] is allowed to do research with the data…then our privacy has already been compromised. The government has already said that our data is their data for their purposes of national health security,†Brase told CNSNews.com.
If I get into a discussion about this with a statist, I’ll just have to remember to ask them if they would have wanted this type of power to have been given to the government abotu AIDS patients during the 80’s.
That will hopefully scare them into re-thinking this idea.
The typical statist that thinks this bio-surveillance is acceptable would think that having the government have better AIDS data in the 80s, just like the program would claim to have, would be just GREAT, because it would better allow the government to help those in need of better medical care, and ensure that government planning would be better executed.
“re-thinking this idea.”
You’d have to have thought about it in the first place to ‘re-think’ it.
The old saying “you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into” applies.