(CNSNews.com) – The new year will bring a new phase of Obamacare to an estimated 860,000 Medicare patients.
Under the new system, individual medical claims filed with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be shared with doctors and hospitals unless Medicare patients opt out of the data-sharing.
Starting on Jan. 1, 32 health care organizations from across the country will take part in a “Pioneer Accountable Care” initiative, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on Monday.
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — made possible under the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act — are supposed to provide “coordinated care” by having a patient’s multiple doctors communicate with one another — and with the hospital — about the best course of treatment.
The goal is to achieve better health care for patients at a lower cost, Sebelius said.
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And so it begins. The beginning of the end of healthcare as we use to know it. If you have read the bill, it gets worse after the 2012 election. Watch.
If any on the right split the vote with a independent we will get 4 more years of Barry, plain and Simple. Think about.
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Can you say "personal data for sale"
Can you say "ID theft"
This involves Social security numbers too! What a smorgasbord for hackers! Thank the Democrats for pushing the flawed Obamacare on to citizens who did not want it. I hope we can repay the favor to all of them in future elections until every last one of them is voted out . When do the death panels start?
They have already started in some states. In Florida if you are over 65 and get breast cancer or ovarian cancer the doctors must stall on treatment till it gets to stage 4 and not treatable. The doctors will lie to you to drag out the time so it spreads. Certain diseases the government is telling doctors what drugs they can write prescriptions for and if they write one for a drug the government says no to they can go to jail for 6 months. Anyone over 65 with psrioses arthrits can not get the pain medicine they were receiving even if the insurance company will continue to approve it and even if that drug was working. This comes straight from a doctor and a patient that can not get the drugs she was on for years now that she has turned 65. Welcome to the communist states of America.
If you can't trust the government with your personal health care data … oh, nevermind.
One more reason to stop Obamacare!
I get the feeling that there will be many seniors who will not be confiding in their physicians since that information will not longer be private. Seems stupid to sign papers in the doctor's office to give permission for them to discus your condition with family members but anybody in the federal government can have access to the same information. Yep makes me feel damn safe and secure in my old age.