Health Provisions In Recovery Package Would Put Privacy At Risk-Limbaugh Worried

[babylonsister]

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Limbaugh Opposes Health IT Provisions, Fears His Medical Records Might Become Public»

As the Senate prepares to vote on its paired down version of the recovery package, Rush Limbaugh is still inventing reasons to oppose its passage. Today on his radio show, Limbaugh zeroed in on a $20 billion portion of the bill devoted to increasing the use of health care IT. Limbaugh warned, “Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system” and declared that this and similar health care provisions have “nothing to do with stimulus but have everything to do with advancing the liberal agenda”:

LIMBAUGH: Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Now there are arguments back and forth about whether or not this is a good thing. The opportunity for the loss of privacy is huge here by digitizing and making everybody’s health care records computerized. Especially having a major federal database where everybody’s health records are.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/09/rush-heath-it/

[monmouth]

1. HA! Of course wiretapping was just a walk in the park... I can imagine

he sure as hell doesn't want his health care records computerized, probably go viral.

[mckara]

2. How Do Electronic Health Records Advance the "Liberal Agenda"?

And Rush, what are those other items in the stimulus bill that advance the liberal agenda, specifically??????

[Bread and Circus]

3. He's trying to shoot down a central health database by defending a steroid abusing baseball player?

And people take this guy seriously?

[edc]

4. Who's against computerizing medical records?

Why, Rush Hillbilly Blue Heroine Limbaugh that's who, and I can understand why. How do you spell irony, Rush? Can you say bad Karma, Rush? :cry:

[Crowman1979]

5. WTF do steroid injecting baseball players have to do with timely access to my own medical records?

When will this pig shut up!?!?

[Crowman1979]

6. He sure didn't give a damn about the the chimp's invasion of our privacy!

Guess I'm not making enough money to earn my privacy. I need to cleanse myself of this filth and watch Bill Hicks.

[muntrv]

7. Translation: We're gonna see his Viagra and Oxycontin purchases.

[zeos3]

8. That last line says it all

I'm not sure what he means about the "liberal agenda" either but the "strengthening and repairing the Democrat Party" line sheds light on how these cretins think.

In their minds, the goal is to defeat the left so completely that it is not even a viable alternative to the right wing. They've done an excellent job in shifting the political discourse of this country to the right, which was a start.

Another leg of their strategy is to de-fund the left. They're trying to completely destroy unions, which have traditionally back the Dems. They create massive debt for the country to ensure that if a Democratic administration comes to power after them, the democrats will have to get out of the hole first and won't have money to go toward any social programs. This part of the strategy goes hand in hand with the constant call for tax cuts which further reduce revenues for the Treasury.

They play politics ALWAYS and they play for keeps and always go for the throat. His use of the word "repairing" reveals that he and his ilk were giddy over the past 8 years and assume they've done serious damage to the left. Limbaugh's "I hope he fails" comment further illustrated this point. I hate this fat fuck with a passion!

PS Is he the asshole who started this whole Democrat Party instead of DemocratIC Party bullshit?

Sorry about the swearing at the end. I couldn't help it.

[tclambert]

9. Just remember, this is the guy who admitted he wants America to fail.

If Republicans can't win all the time, he would just as soon pull the whole house down on our heads.

[Left Coast2020]

10. I think he's afraid we'll all see how small his nads are...

and regularly uses a microscope to find them. :rofl: