Dr. Big Brother Is Watching You?

I am laughing. I mean, rolling on the floor, cackling hysterically, ready-for-the-jacket-with-the-sleeves-that-tie-in-the-back laughing. Read this article and then come back. Go on, I'll wait.

Done? Good. So Rep. Tim Huelskamp is afraid of the Federal Government getting its hands on everybody's private medical records because the Federal Government has a bad track record of securing the privacy of the information it collects. He fears it will lead to the loss of insurance company proprietary information that will undermine their competitiveness. Uh, guy, destroying the competitiveness of the insurance companies in order to drive them out of business and collapse the United States into a single-payer, government-run system that the majority of Americans don't want is the whole purpose of ObamaCare. Are you just now figuring this out?

And he spends the majority of his op-ed piece on these issues. But I can tell you know what the real problem is. Why didn't you make that the main emphasis of your article? Afraid of being singled out as the one who starts calling attention to the man behind the curtain? Not ready for the fires of holy hell to be place beneath your feet?
Let's look at some selected quotes from the piece:

It’s par for the course with the federal government, but abstract terms are used to distract from the real objectives of this idea: no matter which “option” is chosen, government bureaucrats would have access to the health records of every American - including you..... With its extensive rule-making decrees, ObamaCare has been an exercise in creating authority out of thin air at the expense of individuals’ rights, freedoms, and liberties. The ability of the federal government to spy on, review, and approve individuals’ private patient-doctor interactions is an excessive power-grab..... No matter what the explanation is, however, this type of data collection is an egregious violation of patient-doctor confidentiality and business privacy. It is like J. Edgar Hoover in a lab coat.

And then you weasel out at the end with the use of that one last wrong word:

....too many people already know what can result when their confidential information gets into the wrong hands, either intentionally or unintentionally.

The wrong word here is the word wrong. From the point of view of the people creating these rules, they think they are finally getting our private medical information into the right hands. But for those of us who love liberty and our God-given rights, we know that it is the Feds who are the most wrong people. And from all these quotes from the article, it is clear that Rep. Huelskamp is aware of this fact also. So why not just say it in so many words when you have such a bully pulpit to shout it from?

The biggest problem we face is not that the Federal Government might accidentlally release your medical records; it is that the Federal Government itself will do nefarious things with your medical records. Like decide that you don't get treated for your heart failure because you belong to the NRA. Or you're a TEA Party member. Or that you donated money to John McCain or Mitt Romney.

It is this kind of grab for power -- the power over individual life and death itself -- that I recognized instantly was the biggest threat from ObamaCare. And I recognized it before Dear Leader was even elected.
I laugh so hard now because I find it so amazing that it is taking so many people this long to understand this.

But I don't find it particularly funny. No, I don't find it very funny at all.