Assault on Medical Privacy Hidden in Spending Bill

Hidden in the Fiscal Year 2017 funding bill is money to create a "patient tracking system." This is code for a storing all your records online where the can be accused by a medical professional, medical researchers, government officials, anyone [...]

Is the Cures Act a cure for liberty?

Tomorrow, the US House will vote on the "21st Century Cures Act"  (HR 6). As the title suggests this bill deals with federal funding for medical research. H.R. 6 does contain some good provisions. For example, it streamlines the Food and Drug [...]

Ron Paul classic: Federal Medical privacy rules shred medical privacy

Shocking I know..... One  of the articles I linked t in yesterday's post on the 21st Century Cures Act refereed the "HIPPA" rule. HIPPA stand for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This law, passed in 1996, made it [...]