| Government Will Fail on Health Care Record Keeping |
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| Written by Adam Bitely |
| Wednesday, 18 November 2009 13:50 |
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As the era of Big Government begins to wear on people, a multitude of evidence has come to the fore to show us just how inefficient and even dangerous the growth of government can be. While many debate the role of Government in Health Care, one issue has emerged that should the argument to rest. Can the Government effectively manage the Health Care records of over 300 million people in an online database--as called for in the Obama Health Care bill? This week we all learned that the Government couldn't keep track of the Stimulus spending on what they branded a revolutionary website, Recovery.gov. How, then, will they be able to keep track of all 300 million plus Health Care records in their “revolutionary” Health Care database? One must ponder this as we are being sold a bill of goods. What will happen when the system inevitably collapses as the Recovery.gov system has? Will we simply get an explanation over Twitter? If that sounds outlandish, that’s exactly what they did yesterday when the buffoons behind Recovery.gov tweeted that “Unless an egregious error is noted, Recovery.gov posts data exactly as it is reported by the recipients.” Apparently no apparatus exists to provide the needed oversight. Troubling.The current administration reminded us for the better part of the last year about a lack in oversight, a claim which is completely false. However, judging from the performance of the record keeping at Revovery.gov and by those in charge of the Stimulus spending, it’s hard to assert that there is oversight in any form. It appears that Government cannot provide quality oversight. Fear of the new Health Care overhaul is natural. Claims that the Government will be able to provide accurate and efficient record keeping of our medical records is not natural in light of recent events.
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| Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:00 |
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The scare about Mad Cow Disease prompted some wag in DC to figure, Hey! We may need to track where a sick cow has been. So they set up NAIS. But they figured, if this is a good idea, why stop with cows, or with sick animals?
I mean, it has been decades since Brucelosis and erysipelas were eradicated in hogs, in the US, so we have forgotten how to address contagious diseases (the regs are still on the books, the vets and states still know how). So they figured, have everyone with a pig, a chicken, a horse, a duck - but not the wild ones - a goat, etc. stick a permanent ID on them, keep records forever, report the records to their state database, and report every time the animal is moved to another pasture, or put in with another animal - or taken to a parade, a show, a fair, a sale, anyplace animals might be exposed to another animal. Report within 24 hours of the move, etc., or face multi-thousand dollar fines.
Each state would have the expense of setting up their database, processing records, etc. And reporting everything to the feds.
That is a lot of records for the feds to keep. And they haven't got it running, last I heard.
Then there is the Food Safety Administration being proposed, which is supposed to track everyone that produces any kind of food, or something that goes into food, for people or for animals, and anyone that transports food or food components, down to the CSA, Farmers Markets, and gardens. Oh, and everyone involved? Gets to keep beaucoup records. And get inspected annually. And all those records get to be reported to the FSA. A bunch of record keeping.
Maybe the feds will hire Acorn to oversee the ObamaCare, FSA, and NAIS records.