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Tara Servatius @ American Thinker:
CVS employees, and the rest of America, had better get used to turning over personal health information like their glucose levels and body mass index to their insurers and to the federal government.
tarting in 2014, per the dictates of the federal government, your doctor must record your body mass index (BMI), which measures whether you are overweight, each time he or she treats you and turn it over to the government via your electronic health record, which every patient is required to have. Your BMI will then be tracked by the Health and Human Services Department, the agency rolling out ObamaCare, and a bevy of other state and federal agencies.
Shock and anger ensued this week as CVS employees learned that if they didnt turn over that information to their insurers, theyd be fined. But CVS is merely rolling out what may become one of the most controversial aspects of ObamaCare a little ahead of schedule.
One needs only to look to Europe to see how our political elites will use ObamaCare, and the BMI weight measure they are so determined to record for each of us, to intrude into and regulate not just our health care, but our lives.
In the U.K., overweight patients or those who smoke are branded undeserving and denied treatments like cataract surgery (without which they could eventually go blind) and knee and hip surgery, leaving some who dont qualify for the surgery in agonizing pain. Some of the U.K.s trusts, which regulate the national health care system for various zones of the country, go farther, denying all operations to those who dont meet the governments weight dictates except for lifesaving surgery on their hearts, brains or to remove cancer.
A recent study shows that a majority of the U.K.s doctors think the national health system should go farther still and deny all non-emergency care to patients who dont meet certain weight and health criteria. By law, they still must pay for their health care, of course, even though they are denied the ability to get treatment.
Given all of this, it is chilling that the collection of each patients BMI was so important to U.S. Health and Human Services that it was one of the first directives the department issued after ObamaCare passed in 2009. There is a reason for that.
It is clear that liberal elites and the Obama administration intend to take Americans down the same path as Europe. The apparatus to handle federally mandated health interventions into peoples lives is already being put in place.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended that all obese adults receive intensive counseling in an effort to rein in a growing health crisis in America and that they have intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions. According to the Los Angeles Times, these apparently will involve 12 to 26 counseling sessions a year with a physician or community-based program.
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CVS employees, and the rest of America, had better get used to turning over personal health information like their glucose levels and body mass index to their insurers and to the federal government.
tarting in 2014, per the dictates of the federal government, your doctor must record your body mass index (BMI), which measures whether you are overweight, each time he or she treats you and turn it over to the government via your electronic health record, which every patient is required to have. Your BMI will then be tracked by the Health and Human Services Department, the agency rolling out ObamaCare, and a bevy of other state and federal agencies.
Shock and anger ensued this week as CVS employees learned that if they didnt turn over that information to their insurers, theyd be fined. But CVS is merely rolling out what may become one of the most controversial aspects of ObamaCare a little ahead of schedule.
One needs only to look to Europe to see how our political elites will use ObamaCare, and the BMI weight measure they are so determined to record for each of us, to intrude into and regulate not just our health care, but our lives.
In the U.K., overweight patients or those who smoke are branded undeserving and denied treatments like cataract surgery (without which they could eventually go blind) and knee and hip surgery, leaving some who dont qualify for the surgery in agonizing pain. Some of the U.K.s trusts, which regulate the national health care system for various zones of the country, go farther, denying all operations to those who dont meet the governments weight dictates except for lifesaving surgery on their hearts, brains or to remove cancer.
A recent study shows that a majority of the U.K.s doctors think the national health system should go farther still and deny all non-emergency care to patients who dont meet certain weight and health criteria. By law, they still must pay for their health care, of course, even though they are denied the ability to get treatment.
Given all of this, it is chilling that the collection of each patients BMI was so important to U.S. Health and Human Services that it was one of the first directives the department issued after ObamaCare passed in 2009. There is a reason for that.
It is clear that liberal elites and the Obama administration intend to take Americans down the same path as Europe. The apparatus to handle federally mandated health interventions into peoples lives is already being put in place.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended that all obese adults receive intensive counseling in an effort to rein in a growing health crisis in America and that they have intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions. According to the Los Angeles Times, these apparently will involve 12 to 26 counseling sessions a year with a physician or community-based program.
[Excerpt]
Read more
Articles: We're All CVS Employees Now
