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Originally Posted by blueash

Your posting does not correctly reflect the way health care coverage operates. A single payer system, such as Medicare, means that the rules, formularies, coverages, exclusions, etc. would be the same for all of us. The payer then pays the provider for covered services in a uniform and predictable manner. The payer does NOT provide the medical record nor have access to the medical record without the consent of the patient. The only part of the medical record which might be made available would be that pertinent to paying for a claim to see if the doctor or hospital actually did perform the service for which the carrier is being billed or to see if the patient's illness justifies a requested medication or intervention. If you believe that seeing a doctor who operates under a government run health care is a risk to your privacy, then don't use your Medicare insurance. If you like Medicare, you like government run health care, plain and simple.

One of the goals of the Feds requiring docs and facilities to use electronic medical records is the creation of a government controlled central medical record database. Hospitals had to have an EMR in place by 2013 or face reimbursement decreases. Docs must also meet an approaching deadline. This is not just Medicare, but an over-reaching action.

You should read the law that N. Pelosi said had to be passed before you could know what was in it.