I can see both sides of the coin but lean toward invasion of privacy and don't want the number system.
"National Patient Identifier Repeal Act would prevent a Social Security number-like system for medical records from enactment"
https://govtrackinsider.com/national-pat...cc2b2b5bba
"In 1996, in response to the earliest nascent forms of electronic or digital health records, a portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandated “unique patient health identifiers.” Similar to Social Security numbers, these were supposed to be numbers that tracked a specific patient across electronic health record systems in their dealings with doctors, physicians, and hospitals over the course of their life.
But starting in 1998, amid fears of government overreach or that the system would be misused, the annual Health and Human Services Department appropriations bill banned any federal funds from being used to develop the health identifier system. This ban was renewed every year between then and 2018, under both Republican and Democratic majorities.
But on June 12, the House voted 246–178 to “repeal the repeal” and federally fund patient identifiers after all. The vote was mostly along party lines, but not completely. Democrats voted 205–29 in favor (or 87% in favor), while Republicans voted 41–149 against (or 78% opposed)."
"National Patient Identifier Repeal Act would prevent a Social Security number-like system for medical records from enactment"
https://govtrackinsider.com/national-pat...cc2b2b5bba
"In 1996, in response to the earliest nascent forms of electronic or digital health records, a portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandated “unique patient health identifiers.” Similar to Social Security numbers, these were supposed to be numbers that tracked a specific patient across electronic health record systems in their dealings with doctors, physicians, and hospitals over the course of their life.
But starting in 1998, amid fears of government overreach or that the system would be misused, the annual Health and Human Services Department appropriations bill banned any federal funds from being used to develop the health identifier system. This ban was renewed every year between then and 2018, under both Republican and Democratic majorities.
But on June 12, the House voted 246–178 to “repeal the repeal” and federally fund patient identifiers after all. The vote was mostly along party lines, but not completely. Democrats voted 205–29 in favor (or 87% in favor), while Republicans voted 41–149 against (or 78% opposed)."
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
