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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
The privacy issue is huge. It's possible that the benefits to patients may outweigh the risks, but there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about this.
I think one of the issues that will seem weird is employer-based insurance oversight with easy access to your whole history, but hey, maybe we'll get nationalized health care too, so that won't matter. Imagine the customer service and quality you associate with the DMV but with access to all your medical records. Awesome.
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I can see both sides of the coin.
It would be good on a safety level. Bad on a privacy level. If it gets serious play in these talks, legislators are going to have to make a hard and fast decision on which is more important. Then supreme court justices will have to do the same.
I don't think we'll be nationalizing health care any time soon, though. I think the goal right now is ensuring everyone has access to some sort of health care.