What do all the following federal agencies and/or departments have in common?
Answer? They'll all have copies of your personal health care information:
While Electronic Health Records (EHR) are the most visible example of the type of information the plan discusses, other technologies include “mobile and telehealth technology, cloud-based services, medical devices, and remote monitoring devices, assistive technologies, and sensors.”….. Now that HHS has publicly released the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, the agency is seeking the input from the public before implementation. The plan is subject to two-month period of public comment before finalization. The comment period runs through February 6, 2015.
I've never trusted "the cloud". I've always had an instinctive, visceral hostility toward it, because your data, your information, was not on your own local hard drive, but was somewhere out there, on a server someplace, completely out of your control, just waiting to be plundered. Sure, if your PC is connected to the 'Net, it could be hacked too, but it's a lot less likely because your machine would be comparatively more difficult to find. Indeed, that's what happened to my blog a few years ago. It was on a hosting server in Michigan, and somebody in Texas hacked and sabotaged it, which is one of the reasons I am generating full-time content here.
Still less do I trust the idea of "remote monitoring devices" in this context. It's probably referring to technology similar to what I encountered when I was hospitalized in the cardiac ward several years ago - vital signs monitoring devices that are wirelessly connected to your hospital or doctor's office. But the feds would be recording that information in real time in addition to archiving it. If you are freaked out by the notion of ubiquitous public surveillance cameras on every street corner and in every ATM, picture the promulgation of a decree requiring EVERY CITIZEN to have such a monitoring device subcutaneously implanted, so that they know what you eat, where you go, what you do, with whom, how often, etc. What is there to prevent that scenario? Isn't that the very point, the veritable raison d' etere of ObamaCare?
And have you started wondering why the Departments (Commissariats) of Agriculture, Defense, Education, Justice, Labor, and Veterans Affairs needs with our real-time personal health info? Or the FCC? What the hell does NASA need with my colonoscopy results? Are we all being put into space in the near future? Because I thought Barack Obama killed our manned space program and sent them chasing after "Muslim outreach" and global warming chimeras years ago.
We've always known that ObamaCare was not actually about health care - that was just the pretext - but control. If it were about just health care, presumably no outfit outside of HHS would have any need for private healthcare information. That the Federal Trade Commission will be sifting through it ought to settle anew a question that should have been settled, oh, about four and a half years ago.
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