Props breh. I gotta read this when I get back to the crib
So who is looking to sign up for "Obamacare" in about 2 weeks?
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and all them mofos are exempt from Obama Care... tells you its all bullshyt.. Careful what you wish for.
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http://nypost.com/2013/09/15/obamacare-will-question-your-sex-life/
Obamacare will question your sex life
By Betsy McCaughey
September 15, 2013 | 7:56pm
‘Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?”
Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law.
“This is nasty business,” says New York cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski. He called the sex questions “insensitive, stupid and very intrusive.” He couldn’t think of an occasion when a cardiologist would need such information — but he knows he’ll be pushed to ask for it.
The president’s “reforms” aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients’ records confidential.
Embarrassing though it may be, you confide things to a doctor you wouldn’t tell anyone else. But this is entirely different.
Doctors and hospitals who don’t comply with the federal government’s electronic-health-records requirements forgo incentive payments now; starting in 2015, they’ll face financial penalties from Medicare and Medicaid. The Department of Health and Human Services has already paid out over $12.7 billion for these incentives.
Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist and associate professor at Albert Einstein Medical College, explains that your medical record should be “a story created by you and your doctor solely for your treatment and benefit.” But the new requirements are turning it “into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential.”
Lack of confidentiality is what concerned the New York Civil Liberties Union in a 2012 report. Electronic medical records have enormous benefits, but with one click of a mouse, every piece of information in a patient’s record, including the social history, is transmitted, disclosing too much.
The social-history questions also include whether you’ve ever used drugs, including IV drugs. As the NYCLU cautioned, revealing a patient’s past drug problem, even if it was a decade ago, risks stigma.
On the other end of the political spectrum is the Goldwater Institute, a free-market think tank. It argues that by requiring everyone to have health insurance and then imposing penalties on insurers, doctors and hospitals who don’t use the one-click electronic system, the law is violating Americans’ medical privacy.
The administration is ignoring these protests from privacy advocates. On Jan. 17, HHS announced patients who want to keep something out of their electronic record should pay cash. That’s impractical for most people.
There’s one question they can’t ask: Thanks to the NRA, Section 2716 of the ObamaCare law bars the federal government from compelling doctors and hospitals to ask you if you own a firearm.
But that’s the only question they can’t be told to ask you.
Where are the women’s rights groups that went to the barricades in the 1980s and 1990s to prevent the federal government from accessing a woman’s health records? Hypocritically, they are silent now.
Patients need to defend their own privacy by refusing to answer the intrusive social-history questions. If you need to confide something pertaining to your treatment, ask your doctor about keeping two sets of books so that your secret stays in the office. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath seriously and won’t be offended.
Are such precautions paranoid? Hardly. WikiLeaker Bradley Manning showed how incompetent the government is at keeping its own secrets; incidents where various agencies accidentally disclose personal data like Social Security numbers are legion. And that’s not to mention the ways in which commercial databases are prone to hacking and/or exploitation.
Be careful about sharing your medical secrets with Uncle Sam.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating ObamaCare.”
http://nypost.com/2013/09/15/obamacare-will-question-your-sex-life/
Obamacare will question your sex life
By Betsy McCaughey
September 15, 2013 | 7:56pm
‘Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?”
Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law.
“This is nasty business,” says New York cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski. He called the sex questions “insensitive, stupid and very intrusive.” He couldn’t think of an occasion when a cardiologist would need such information — but he knows he’ll be pushed to ask for it.
The president’s “reforms” aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients’ records confidential.
Embarrassing though it may be, you confide things to a doctor you wouldn’t tell anyone else. But this is entirely different.
Doctors and hospitals who don’t comply with the federal government’s electronic-health-records requirements forgo incentive payments now; starting in 2015, they’ll face financial penalties from Medicare and Medicaid. The Department of Health and Human Services has already paid out over $12.7 billion for these incentives.
Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist and associate professor at Albert Einstein Medical College, explains that your medical record should be “a story created by you and your doctor solely for your treatment and benefit.” But the new requirements are turning it “into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential.”
Lack of confidentiality is what concerned the New York Civil Liberties Union in a 2012 report. Electronic medical records have enormous benefits, but with one click of a mouse, every piece of information in a patient’s record, including the social history, is transmitted, disclosing too much.
The social-history questions also include whether you’ve ever used drugs, including IV drugs. As the NYCLU cautioned, revealing a patient’s past drug problem, even if it was a decade ago, risks stigma.
On the other end of the political spectrum is the Goldwater Institute, a free-market think tank. It argues that by requiring everyone to have health insurance and then imposing penalties on insurers, doctors and hospitals who don’t use the one-click electronic system, the law is violating Americans’ medical privacy.
The administration is ignoring these protests from privacy advocates. On Jan. 17, HHS announced patients who want to keep something out of their electronic record should pay cash. That’s impractical for most people.
There’s one question they can’t ask: Thanks to the NRA, Section 2716 of the ObamaCare law bars the federal government from compelling doctors and hospitals to ask you if you own a firearm.
But that’s the only question they can’t be told to ask you.
Where are the women’s rights groups that went to the barricades in the 1980s and 1990s to prevent the federal government from accessing a woman’s health records? Hypocritically, they are silent now.
Patients need to defend their own privacy by refusing to answer the intrusive social-history questions. If you need to confide something pertaining to your treatment, ask your doctor about keeping two sets of books so that your secret stays in the office. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath seriously and won’t be offended.
Are such precautions paranoid? Hardly. WikiLeaker Bradley Manning showed how incompetent the government is at keeping its own secrets; incidents where various agencies accidentally disclose personal data like Social Security numbers are legion. And that’s not to mention the ways in which commercial databases are prone to hacking and/or exploitation.
Be careful about sharing your medical secrets with Uncle Sam.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating ObamaCare.”
@ That When I go to the doc now (once every couple of years) one of the first things he ask me if am sexually active, it's brought up once and never again
Is it free health care for everyone?
Man, that would take hours. You would be better off asking a specific question in the context of what type of healthcare you have
ok, basically i was close to being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis... i lost my insurance due to not being able to work, i had kaiser through my job... so i have no money, no nothing.. just wondering if i was able to apply and get it... i need to see doctors.
So, I would check the kaiser family foundation website and\or the national conference of state legislators for specifics pertaining to your situation. I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head but if you're at a certain percentage around the poverty level you would be eligible for certain subsidies. If your situation is as you say it is, you definitely should be eligible for something which you an then use to purchase insurance on the exchanges (if your state is participating in the exchanges).
So either way I'm going to have to pay something out of my pocket... And say I don't want to go to kaiser anymore, just want to see random doctors that I want to choose.. As far as poverty level, I'm bum status bro.
You may not be paying anything, but I'm not in a position to do the the research off the dome (and number crunch). I have an idea, but I don't want to lead you astray. For what it's worth you're from CA it appears and it looks like costs have been dropping there because of Obamacare so you probably won't be seeing that much of a charge. The reason I said to go to those sites is because they have the most comprehensive information on these questions on the internet not because you'll have to get with kaiser. So again, I would look at what you qualify for (probably the maximum subsidy) and then look at the options that are available. I don't exactly know what plans there are out there in CA.
http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/ There is the subsidy calculator
thanks a lot bro.
i found this
Open enrollment for the ObamaCare Health Insurance Marketplace is from October 1st, 2013 to March 31st, 2014, but you don't have to wait to see if you are eligible for financial aid. Apply today at healthcare.gov to see if you are eligible for cost assistance.
i came across it here: http://obamacarefacts.com/whatis-obamacare.php
Right, but the kaiser site does a better job of actually explaining the differences. This is the gist of the exchanges (and CA is pretty far ahead in implementing it, and I think they did something with dental and vision care...I would play around with the website).
So I would sign up right now if I were you and if you plug you're information into the calculator you will know exactly what you have to pay. I was just being lazy because I'm watching the game. my fault fam
oh ok... thanks im going to look into it rightnow.