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Obamacare law creates “Data Services Hub” and tracks “social and behavioral” data

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 11:34

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TND Exclusive / By O.D. of PoliceStateUSA.com /

Stop worrying about the IRS or the NSA stealing your information. From now on we will hand it over to the government voluntarily.

If the IRS or NSA scandals involving misuse of private data were troubling, consider the implications of the new information databases created in the name of health care. The newly-launched Affordable Care Act creates a massive electronic registry of private information that is accessible to bureaucrats in agencies ranging from the Internal Revenue Service to the Department of Homeland Security. Its a wonder how Americans who are becoming increasingly concerned with federal surveillance and domestic spying programs could in any way approve of the so-called Obamacare law.

The Affordable Care Act opened exchanges for customer enrollment on October 1st, the federal furlough notwithstanding. The federally-run exchanges, euphemistically called “new health insurance marketplaces,” are accompanied by collection of a wide variety of personal data, which can now be legally shared numerous faceless government agencies — agencies which previously had to snoop, steal, or spy to get it. No longer will any of our intimate medical details be reasonably considered either private or protected.

To facilitate this forfeiture of individual privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services has created a massive, comprehensive database to record and store Americans’ personal information called the Federal Data Services Hub. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the purpose of the Data Hub is to provide “electronic, near real-time access to federal data” and “access to state and third party data sources needed to verify consumer-eligibility information.” No longer will any of our intimate medical details be reasonably considered either private or protected.

The Electronic Health Records (EHR) — which we are repeatedly told will improve the quality of healthcare — are also the most convenient way for the government to create this permanent database of information on every American citizen. Americans are expected disclose all the information for the Hub under the guise of ensuring that everyone enrolled in the Obamacare exchanges obtains the best insurance coverage for themselves. Medicaid now wishes to require patients’ “social and behavioral” information included in these records and have these patients’ records linked to public health departments.

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