Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Editorial: NY Confiscates 'Private' Records of Psychiatrists

The march to tyranny has picked up fierce momentum in the state of New York, where the criminal Cuomo administration is now issuing subpoenas that demand psychiatrists turn over ALL their records to the state, reports AmmoLand.com.

This is just the first step for the New York government's "HIPAA" committee, whose sole purpose is to "illegally obtain and access the private medical records of potentially millions of NY State Residents."

Regardless of your views on firearms ownership, such actions are absolutely chilling. It puts the government in the position of violating doctor-patient confidentiality for the purpose of the state determining who suffers from "mental health" problems that the state uses to justify almost any action it wishes to take.

This is not a gun rights issue, this is a patient rights issue. If a state government can simply seize all records from all psychiatrists, then it can also use that information to decide whose children to have taken away by CPS... or who to deny the right to vote by having them labeled "mentally incompetent."

Source:
And So It Begins:  New York Government Confiscates Private Records of Psychiatrists in Chilling Orwellian Mental Health Sweep

3 comments:

Thelma said...

There has to be another way, other than this invasion of privacy.

StandUp said...

Well this isn't good. I'm all for getting terrorists but there has to be a way of doing it that doesn't bite the public.

Anonymous said...

If I can not have access to my loved ones medical records because of HIPAA neither should the government be allowed. If a state government can simply seize all records from all psychiatrists, then it can also use that information to decide whose children to have taken away by CPS... or who to deny the right to vote by having them labeled "mentally incompetent."