On Fri, April 20, 2007 10:43 am, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Todd Walton wrote: > >> It's Democrats that are pushing the hardest for centralized lists of >> medical information. If any of the Democratic Presidential >> candidates, for example, get their way every one of us will have our >> medical information in one convenient place. > > There are good, legitimate reasons for having all your medical > information in one place. > > That said, those good, legitimate reasons are far and away outweighed > by the potential for abuse and theft, both by people directly > involved with the program, and outside attackers wanting data to sell > to health insurance companies. > > It could save lives, while making those same lives absolutely miserable. > > Gregory >
The possibilities for meaningful medical research are staggering. But that can be served by stripping them of all ID. I'd also like to see someone keeping stats on physician outcomes, although that is a big can of worms, and I could probably be talked out if it. In fact, if the teacher "accountability" in no0chlid-left-behind is the paradigm, I'm against it. I'd be interested in Dave Looney's opinion. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
