Generation Opportunity, “a free-thinking, liberty-loving, national organization of young people”, has set up OptOut.org to let young people know that they needn’t (and probably shouldn’t) sign up for Obamacare. Their current ad for young women:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7cRsfW0Jv8[/youtube]
(Male version, here.)
Now for the ‘media bias’ angle. I learned about this from Yahoo! which, naturally, has titled their article “Creepy Obamacare ad hits college campuses”.
In other words: Even after all the government-spying scandals, Big Government-run health care (that costs a young woman far more than she’ll get from it, despite the fine they’ll extort for her saying ‘no’) still doesn’t strike Yahoo! News as creepy. But ads against it, they’ll suggestively title as ‘creepy’.
FROM THE COMMENTS (thank you Kurt): Get ready for Obama(care) to ask detailed questions about your sex life. Umm…I thought that was only supposed to happen under the Religious Reich Theocracy that the Left always warns us against?
The president’s “reforms” aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary…
Doctors and hospitals who don’t comply with the federal government’s electronic-health-records requirements forgo incentive payments…
…the new requirements are turning it “into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential.” Lack of confidentiality is what concerned the New York Civil Liberties Union in a 2012 report…
Privacy and confidentiality will just be for the rich:
The administration is ignoring [various] protests from privacy advocates. On Jan. 17, HHS announced patients who want to keep something out of their electronic record should pay cash.
“Thanks, Obama!”
That’s pretty amusing. Did you see this story the other day, as well? That one doesn’t surprise me, either; it was pretty obvious that all kinds of personal questions are going to be just another feature of Obamacare.
The idea that the Government would abuse our medical records is as absurd as the idea that the Government would abuse the IRS to punish opponents of Obama.
Lower case mike would say this unironically.
Well the videos are a tad creepy….but no creepier than Obamacare.
BF – Yes, and in fairness, the meat of the Yahoo! article focuses the word ‘creepy’ on the ads’ Uncle Sam character.
But that starts at paragraph 5. If you only skimmed the Yahoo! headline and first few paragraphs (as many do), you’d have an impression that something is wrong with the ad campaign and the people mounting it. That the campaign against Obamacare as such, is “creepy”.
The media loves to play these cutesy-deniable games. “Oh, we didn’t call opposition to Obamacare creepy; only the ads’ Uncle Sam character. And it is, right?” But the headline, the photo caption, etc. dangle an impression that the media would never want dangled, if the shoe were on the other foot and the impression could hurt a pet liberal cause.
Err, what happens if you just don’t answer the Doctor’s invasive questions? Or the Obamacare “Navigator’s” questions?
What bothers me is the TOTAL breakdown of trust between Patient and Doctor, professional confidentiality, and why have HIPAA if there’s no protections of patient privacy anymore…which was the whole point of HIPAA in the first-place.
Frankly, my response to any question that is None of Obama’s Business will be to lie.
Since this information is going to a Federal database and lying to a Federal employee is a crime, even if you are not lying on purpose, just write 5th Amendment for all the answers.
I assume Mrs. Bill Clinton’s bisexuality is pre-emptive, prior to the campaign and to her doctor’s merely following “mandates” (pardon the term), a, uh, pre-existing condition. Or was she granted a waiver? How much are they paying Gennifer Flowers and was that circle of love down in Arkansas really a triangle?
How can you pay cash to keep something out of the record, when you are not allowed to pay cash…you have to have the damned obamacare?
Watching internet libs trying to excuse this without comparing notes was priceless. “You’re lying, and you know it.” “That woman’s never written a single honest word.” “Damned Republicans, they want to stifle discussion of sexuality.” But I thought Republicans needed to be kept out of the bedroom? “Of course my cardiologist needs to know that I’m a sexually active gay man, that could affect my care!” That was for real, folks; I’m pretty sure that guy’s just hoping for a very personal colonoscopy, if you catch my drift.
And before anybody cries foul at that, just remember folks, liberals have decreed that derogatory comments and words are not offensive if a it is used by a member of the target’s own applicable victim group. And since I’m a man-loving man, it’s fair game.
I’m not sure what the problem is. The NSA has all our health records now anyway. 😛
I wonder why Rand Paul hasn’t introduced a Medical Records Privacy Act, to prevent the Federal Government from collecting medical information on American citizens.
His staff could be writing it as we speak. Whoever writes it will need awhile. With the 1500 pages of the Obamacare enabling legislation, any attempt to amend any unintended consequences will require careful attention to detail to catch most (if not all) of the loopholes.
Isn’t that exactly what the republicans are doing with women in some red states.
Controlling their vvg to check the fetus inside?
Non-sequeters George?
Good to know you’ve come out and admitted that you don’t believe in privacy.
As usual, the leftie compares apples and oranges, simply ‘blanking out’ the fact that abortion involves the rights of at least two other concerned parties, making it Not an individual health-care choice.