Comment: Your data won’t just go to multiple federal agencies. The Peace Corps, state bureaucrats, and private contractors will all get access to your data through Obamacare’s data hub. The Peace Corps? In England, there was a long and contentious civil liberties debate about whether or not National Health Service records should be shared with other government agencies. In the U.S., Obamacare blew right past that important issue and others involving your privacy. In case you haven’t gotten the message yet, your data isn’t important because YOU aren’t important. Only the collectivists’ grand schemes are important.
[…]
“The Health and Human Services Department earlier this year exposed just how vast the government’s data collection efforts will be on millions of Americans as a result of ObamaCare.”
“Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., asked HHS to provide “a complete list of agencies that will interact with the Federal Data Services Hub.”…”
“In response:
- Social Security Administration,
- the IRS,
- the Department of Homeland Security,
- the Veterans Administration,
- Office of Personnel Management,
- the Department of Defense and
- the Peace Corps.
- Plus the Hub will plug into state Medicaid databases.”
“And what sort of data will be “routed through” the Hub?
[In response:]
- Social Security numbers,
- income,
- family size,
- citizenship and immigration status,
- incarceration status,
- enrollment status in other health plans,”
[…]
“In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, CMS is establishing a new system of records…The system of records will contain personally identifiable information…”
“So, the database “will contain personally identifiable information” after all.”
[…]
“…”entities who may receive disclosures under routine use” without your consent are federal agencies, state agencies, agency contractors, consultants, CMS grantees and non-profit entities operating exchanges for states.”
“Those are just the entities authorized to have access to your information,…”
Obamacare Will Collect and Share Americans’ Data ‘Without the Consent of the Individual’
Jun. 25, 2013
http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/25/obamacare-will-collect-and-share-america