* katy wrote, On 4/18/2007 12:44 PM:
Jonathan Ganz wrote:
In article ,
Jeff wrote:

The Privacy and Security provisions of HIPPA were passed by a
Republican Congress and signed by a Republican President.

And are you seriously saying that the NRA (or anyone else) would
support a law that encouraged a psychiatrist to put a note in your
FBI file that you're being treated for depression and therefore
cannot be trusted?


It's a bummer when those pesky facts just pop out of nowhere. g


The reality is that the former Bush adminsitration called for a stufdy
to lessen the costs of health care by systemizing an el;ectronic billing
system for insurance companies so that only one code book and one set of
diagnosis values would be used, thus streamlinging the medical insurance
business. In comes the bureaucrats, saying "Ah! but what about
privacy???" Need we remind you that those people were Democrats?

Why do you have to remind us? Why is it a given that anything you
don't like was done by a liberal Democrat? The truth is that the
final version of the privacy and security provisions were voted
approved by a Congress that had been Republican for 6 years. So what
are you claiming, that Democrats infiltrated and subverted the
Republican party?

Like I
said, I have a very close friend, a well known health care lobbyist, who
worked in the HEW Dept during the Reagan years who was in on the
initiative...What started out as a cost cutting effort turned into a
fisco...it's all there in the facts...just Google Hisotry of HIPAA....

A fiasco it may be, I can't say. I can say that there are a number of
nice things about it, like being guaranteed I won't lose coverage when
changing jobs.

And I'll repeat the issue relevant to the current situation: Are you
claiming that a person who voluntarily gets treated for depression
should have that put on his FBI record so they are flagged forever as
someone who can't get a gun? In the case of Cho, if he involuntarily
been committed for observation, it would have been possible to flag
his file. But since it was voluntary, it simply isn't appropriate.

I don't know what could have been done different in this case. But I
certainly don't think answer is to share all of our medical records
with the police. And claiming that its only the "Liberals" that
prevent us from doing that is, well, rather bizarre!