Ted Poe For Government Invasion Of Privacy And Against It
posted 16th March 2010 in Legislation, Republicans by jclifford
With a final House vote on health care reform legislation drawing near, there are some very heated arguments being made against the program. Among the core arguments is that the health care legislation would create an invasion of privacy by the federal government, allowing the government to look at our private medical records. That’s the argument that was made by Congressman Ted Poe yesterday. Poe said,
The new health care bill is an invasion of people’s privacy. It’s another reason why we should vote it down. The government shouldn’t be sticking its nose into people’s medical records. It’s none of the government’s business. There’s a ‘health care integrity data bank’ in the bill that gives the Feds access to everyone’s medical records. Once the government has everybody’s medical records, none of that information is secure. Health care information should be between the patient and the doctor – and that’s all. Not the patient and some yet unnamed, anonymous, unaccountable Federal bureaucrat.”
What Congressman Poe didn’t say yesterday is that the government is already allowed to peek at Americans’ private medical records, and without adequate oversight at all. The big government snooping was enabled by the passage of the Patriot Act back in 2001. Ted Poe voted in favor of the law to allow unaccountable federal bureaucrats to look at private health care information.
Perhaps one might argue that Representative Poe had no choice, that he had to vote for the Patriot Act in order to ensure the security of the nation, even though he didn’t like the provisions that allowed federal government snooping on private medical records.
If that’s so, then Poe ought to have supported legislation to reform the Patriot Act. Exactly the opposite is true, however. Just at the end of last month, Poe voted in favor of extending the worst parts of the Patriot Act without any reform at all.
Given that Ted Poe affirmed his support for the snooping of big government bureaucrats into Americans private medical records, why should we accept his arguments against health care reform, on the basis of the need for medical privacy, at face value?
Tags: congress, health care, patriot act, privacy, ted poe
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