GovernmentSpeak
Friday, August 21, 2009The government used the crushing financial crisis to fund one of its most totalitarian programs ever – the system of health information spy networks – under the cloak of “efficiency.”
The U.S. government on Thursday announced grants of almost $1.2 billion to help hospitals and health care providers implement and use electronic health records.
Since I love extracting and exposing GovernmentSpeak, here’s how spy totalitarianism is explained by the regime’s trained monkeys:
“Expanding the use of electronic health records is fundamental to reforming our health care system,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, unveiling the grants with Biden in Chicago.
“Electronic health records can help reduce medical errors, make health care more efficient and improve the quality of medical care for all Americans.”
Dan Davis says:
August 21st, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Here’s what I imagine; forty or fifty leftists in the country who actually understand that a scenario like the one in play here is even possible. The rest, like Secretary Sebelius, simply sign on as true believers who are oblivious to the deeper designs of those actually doing the central planning. Problem here is that Republicans are absolutely the wrong people to beat this back. Heck, they might have come up with this themselves if Obama hadn’t beat them to it. Newt’s been preaching upgrading health care information systems for quite a while. Do you think anyone in Congress would listen to his arguments and not instinctively imagine a guvment program to accomplish it?
Robin says:
August 21st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
A government database of electronic health records would enable interrogators and prosecutors to find a victim’s pressure points very quickly. Refuse to divulge information, or to plead guilty? No problem. They’ll just put a hold on your father’s heart medication prescription, or your daughter’s insulin prescription, until you come around.
Mark Aster says:
August 21st, 2009 at 7:22 pm
For all those who thought Sarah Palin was crazy, here’s a real example of government death panels encouraging our veterans to leave the planet and the VA health care system just a little earlier than planned: http://www.rihlp.org/pubs/Your_life_your_choices.pdf
Richard Laplante says:
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
The last time (and several visits prior to this) I saw my doctor, she sat there with a tablet pc on her lap and asked me what medications I was taking.
To which I replied – “Don’t you know? You prescribed them.”
Oh, I must be missing something here.
I asked about the pc and was told about how much it was improving the service I was receiving.
Maybe they’ll get new pc’s that keep records electronically. I can’t wait to be asked what species I am…