Sex, drugs and ObamaCare: Doctor questions get personal

[line-em-up]

Sex, drugs and ObamaCare: Doctor questions get personal

Published September 17, 2013
watchdog.org


Thanks to new regulations that are part of the federal Affordable Care Act, patients will be asked to disclose more personal information to their doctors -- including how often they have sex and how with how many sexual partners.

And once they do, it won't really be personal information any more.

One provision of the new ObamaCare law will have doctors asking their patients about their sex lives and history of drug use, even if such information is completely unrelated to why the patient is seeking medical treatment, according to a report in Monday's New York Post.

Christina Sandefur, a lawyer for the Goldwater Institute, an Arizona-based conservative think tank challenging the Affordable Care Act in federal court, said the arrangement is a violation of patients' privacy rights.

"Once you've shared your information with a private third party, the Supreme Court has ruled that is fair game for the government," she told Watchdog.org, noting the recent disclosures of data sharing between the National Security Agency and Google, Facebook and other online services.

Doctors and hospitals who refuse to participate could be cut-off from some federal funds, and individuals who decline to share sensitive information may have to pay the fines -- taxes, according to the Supreme Court -- outlined in the federal health care law.


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Obummer, since you want to know my personal business, I must confess. I fucked your little girl last week and I let you hag ass wife suck my dick. Thanks for not warning me. Now I have to get shots.

[Nash B.]

Obummer, since you want to know my personal business, I must confess. I fucked your little girl last week and I let you hag ass wife suck my dick. Thanks for not warning me. Now I have to get shots.

You got him good, fucker.

[line-em-up]

Hey, they asked. Since there is no way I could ever get close enough to tell him in person, that's my way of poking him in the chest and asking him what he's going to do about it. At least it makes me fell better.

[Nash B.]

Hey, they asked. Since there is no way I could ever get close enough to tell him in person, that's my way of poking him in the chest and asking him what he's going to do about it. At least it makes me fell better.

Lying about raping his young daughter and getting a beej from his ugly wife makes you feel better? Um, OK.

[line-em-up]

Come on man, you're killing my buzz.

[Nash B.]

If that's the kind of things you think about when you're buzzed, you should stop getting buzzed.

[Cooter]

If that's the kind of things you think about when you're buzzed, you should stop getting buzzed.

whatever you say Buzz Killington!

[KBScobravert]

I believe that "Patient refused to answer" is going to be the number one response put on paper. They cannot deny you care until you answer so who the fuck would tell them the truth much less answer at all.

[Tx Redneck]

This is just like when pediatricians started asking about guns in the home 4-5yrs ago. My response has always been, what business of that is yours and what does it have to do with providing pediatric care for my children?

I've not, nor would I ever disclose that to them as it's totally irrelevant to pediatric medicine and frankly, I feel it's none of their dadgum business whether or not I own any firearms.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

[jones4stangs]

Thanks to new regulations that are part of the federal Affordable Care Act, patients will be asked to disclose more personal information to their doctors -- including how often they have sex and how with how many sexual partners.

Origin

http://nypost.com/2013/09/15/obamaca...your-sex-life/ By Betsy McCaughey

Rebuttal

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09...-lie-ju/195913

In a New York Post op-ed, McCaughey claimed that the health care law will "turn doctors into government agents" by requiring them to ask supposedly "intrusive" questions about their patients' sexual history. McCaughey's op-ed, which cited no evidence to support her claims

McCaughey offered no evidence for her claims that the ACA changes existing practices. In fact, despite her fearmongering, sexual history questions are routine medical practice. The Centers For Disease Control calls such questions "an important part of a regular medical exam or physical history" and recommends that "[a] sexual history needs to be taken during a patient's initial visit, during routine preventive exams, and when you see signs of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)." In fact, the very questions that McCaughey claims doctors will now be pressured to ask are the exact questions the CDC recommends doctors ask their patients.

McCaughey has a long history of fearmongering about the ACA. Not only was she responsible for launching the "death panel" lie....

[Vertnut]

Deny it all you like: it's happening as we speak. My dad deals with it quarterly when he visits his IM doc, and we deal with it quarterly when we take my nephew in to see his pediatrician.

[stevo]

Origin

http://nypost.com/2013/09/15/obamaca...your-sex-life/ By Betsy McCaughey

Rebuttal

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09...-lie-ju/195913

In a New York Post op-ed, McCaughey claimed that the health care law will "turn doctors into government agents" by requiring them to ask supposedly "intrusive" questions about their patients' sexual history. McCaughey's op-ed, which cited no evidence to support her claims

McCaughey offered no evidence for her claims that the ACA changes existing practices. In fact, despite her fearmongering, sexual history questions are routine medical practice. The Centers For Disease Control calls such questions "an important part of a regular medical exam or physical history" and recommends that "[a] sexual history needs to be taken during a patient's initial visit, during routine preventive exams, and when you see signs of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)." In fact, the very questions that McCaughey claims doctors will now be pressured to ask are the exact questions the CDC recommends doctors ask their patients.

McCaughey has a long history of fearmongering about the ACA. Not only was she responsible for launching the "death panel" lie....

I recommend you educate yourself with the current DSM-5 and the recent executive orders given by the 0bama regime before you claim copy/paste articles from you favorite liberal websites as facts. You are making yourself look foolish.

Stevo

[jones4stangs]

Deny it all you like: it's happening as we speak. My dad deals with it quarterly when he visits his IM doc, and we deal with it quarterly when we take my nephew in to see his pediatrician.

Deny what? Sexual questions are something new brought in by Obamacare? or Sexual questions are a routine part of doctor questions unrelated to Obamacare? I have no doubt these questions were asked, as you said, to your relative.

[jones4stangs]

I recommend you educate yourself with the current DSM-5 and the recent executive orders given by the 0bama regime before you claim copy/paste articles from you favorite liberal websites as facts. You are making yourself look foolish.

Stevo

Please clarify how this relates to the thread?

DSM-5 (formerly known as DSM-V) is the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In the United States the DSM serves as a universal authority for the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders.

[Vertnut]

Deny what? Sexual questions are something new brought in by Obamacare? or Sexual questions are a routine part of doctor questions unrelated to Obamacare? I have no doubt these questions were asked, as you said, to your relative.

Dad's last visit to his internal medicine doc, several new personal questions were asked. When dad told him where to stick it, the doc stated it was part of the "affordable care act" and is required under Medi-care. Dad promptly told him to stick it again, the doc made some notes, and dropped it.