OT: Feds want to drop protection of privacy regarding medical data

[R. Quenett]

from David A. Bandel:

" It can be argued that "your" medical records aren't yours at all.  That
" those papers are the property of the physician, not you.  If you write

Strikes me that this spotlights the crux of the matter.  That crux is 
not that it might be debateable whether or on what basis the records 
are the property of the physician or to the patient but that they do
NOT belong to the Office of the President.

Yet, incredibly, it is that Office which is taking unto itself the 
right to make the final determination as to the propriety of the
use/disposition of that property.

The political system which retains the facade of private ownership
while reserving to the collective all of the essential elements of
that ownership is facism.

R  

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