The administration is ignoring these protests from privacy advocates. On Jan. 17, HHS announced patients who want to keep something out of their electronic record should pay cash. Thatâs impractical for most people.
Thereâs one question they canât ask: Thanks to the NRA, Section 2716 of the ObamaCare law bars the federal government from compelling doctors and hospitals to ask you if you own a firearm.
But thatâs the only question they canât be told to ask you.
Where are the womenâs rights groups that went to the barricades in the 1980s and 1990s to prevent the federal government from accessing a womanâs health records? Hypocritically, they are silent now.