Phyllis Schlafly

What's At Stake In The New HHS Privacy Regs?

In earlier, simpler times, medical privacy was no problem. Your doctor recorded the date of your visit and his diagnosis and prescriptions in his inimitable illegible handwriting and put it safely in a manila folder where only he or his nurse would ever see it and nobody else could possibly read it.

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The Phyllis Schlafly Report

Are We Becoming a Society of Snoops?

Concerns have faded about a Y2K breakdown of government computers, but Americans should be worried about how computer efficiency gives the federal government extraordinary powers to monitor the daily activities of law-abiding Americans.

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Phyllis Schlafly

Who Controls Your Medical Records?

We had hoped that the 106th Congress would address the health care and HMO issue by giving more power to patients. Instead, the House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property has scheduled a hearing this week on a bill to lay the groundwork for corporations to control, manipulate, and market our most intimate medical records.

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The Phyllis Schlafly Report

A Candid Report on the 105th Congress

The 1996 Kennedy-Kassebaum law authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to assign “unique health care identifiers” to each American so that the government can electronically tag, track and monitor our personal medical records.

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