Yet Another Small Nut Found Hidden in the ObamaCare Tree

The Statists protested mightily against listening to Islamofacist terrorists overseas talking to like minded people in the US, but this privacy transgression seems to be okay. Section 163 of the ObamaCare bill, “Administrative Simplification,” sets up electronic transactions for health care. It will “enable the real-time (or near real-time) determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service . . . ”... “enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation with related health care payment and remittance advice.”

Your health care card, required by government, will have “machine-readable health plan" that will contain all your health information, accessible by the government, all your banking and financial information, accessible by the government, which will have all your credit and debit cards info, which your health care provider, i.e., the government, can deduct payment from.

Of course, to allay our fears of this government intrusion into our personal lives, “Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the use of information collected under this section in a manner that would adversely affect any individual.” Not that there's been any fraud in government programs, understand.