Obamacare
Quote: FinsRuleI can guarantee you the government doesn't require you to state your religion in order for doctors to receive payment. I'm sure there is a "prefer not to state" option.
The religion question I don't know about. But
on the race and ethnicity, she was specifically
told those questions had to be answered, there
wasn't a leave it blank option. All doctors aren't
doing this yet, most are waiting till after the
election. None of this goes into effect till next
year. There was White, African American, Asian,
Native American, and Other. And then the ethnicity
question. None of this is allowed where my wife
works, they can't ask these questions and indeed,
cannot even mention race in any way while at work.
They had a problem a few months ago when a black
guy stole a delivery truck. When the police arrived,
they asked my wife for a description and she said
a tall guy with black hair and brown eyes. When
they asked his race, my wife said she couldn't say.
Later she asked HR if she did the right thing, and
they said she did it perfectly. I'm not joking.
The other health questions seem like things a doctor should know.
Quote: FinsRuleThe race question should have an answer that says "two or more races". If you ever felt like you didn't want to answer, you could always put that down.
If you were born here the correct answer should be "Native American," shouldn't it?
Quote: FinsRuleThe race question should have an answer that says "two or more races". If you ever felt like you didn't want to answer, you could always put that down.
The other health questions seem like things a doctor should know.
Is it 'race' or 'ethinicity'? One is quite different from the other... medially race might be useful (though for the areas where it'd be useful, genetic screening is becoming cheap enough to deal with it) while the 'ethinicity' tells you nothing about the biology of a person.
Quote: FinsRule
The other health questions seem like things a doctor should know.
But that form is going to the GOV'T, not your
doctor. He already has that info. Now the gov't
wants the health info that up to now was just
between you and your doctor. Starting to 'get it'?
How else can they decide who to discriminate
against? 320 pounds with high BP? We ain't paying
your bills, fatty.
Quote: thecesspitIs it 'race' or 'ethinicity'? One is quite different from the other... medially race might be useful (though for the areas where it'd be useful, genetic screening is becoming cheap enough to deal with it) while the 'ethinicity' tells you nothing about the biology of a person.
Its all about pigeon holing you. Obamacare is about
the gov't controlling us, getting info, keeping tabs on
us. What better way to do that than under the guise
of healthcare. And of course all gov't agencies share
info, so they all will have access to it.
I personally don't see the point to the martial status question that's on every single new patient form. Why should my dentist care if I'm married, single, divorced or widowed? Do divorced people have more, less, or different teeth than single people? If you are not married now does it matter that you might have been married before at one time, and if the marriage was dissolved does it matter in which way?
Quote: tsmith
I personally don't see the point to the martial status question that's on every single new patient form. Why should my dentist care if I'm married, single, divorced or widowed? Do divorced people have more, less, or different teeth than single people? If you are not married now does it matter that you might have been married before at one time, and if the marriage was dissolved does it matter in which way?
Marital status could possibly be relevant in case of an emergency where a life decision had to be made. This is a SWAG, but the only reason I can think of, but is a logical reason.
