URGENT: Privacy Rights Alert

[JWRCLUM@aol.com]

  In the next several hours, a House-Senate Conference Committee will decide on
  the joint version of the Kennedy-Kassebaum Health Care bill, H3103.
  
  Specifically, the U.S. House is pushing for inclusion of its "Administrative
  Simplification" amendment (which is not present in the Senate's version),
  before the bill is sent to the President.
  
  If "Administrative Simplification" is included. this bill will be profoundly
  destructive to the Medical Privacy Rights of each and every American.
   Specifically:
  
  1.)  Medical Records will be computerized in vast databases run by large
  corporations (including certain consumer credit reporting companies) and/or
  by the government.  This will create a COMPUTERIZED "LENDING LIBRARY" OF ALL
  OF OUR MEDICAL RECORDS.
  Just as the military can't protect its computers from unauthorized access, so
  too the new Medical Records "Lending Library" will be at risk.
  
  2.)  Each of us will have a "UNIQUE HEALTH IDENTIFIER" NUMBER assigned to us
  ----- and this will be referenced in any and all health care.  (Where is
  privacy in this???)
  
  3.)  IT WILL PRE-EMPT: STATE LAWS PROTECTING OUR MEDICAL PRIVACY.
  
  
  IF YOU VALUE YOUR MEDICAL PRIVACY, THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW.
  Tell these senators that "ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION" needs a NO vote.
  
  CALL:     SENATOR KASSEBAUM   202-224-4774
                SENATOR KENNEDY        202-224-4543
                SENATOR LOTT                202-224-6253 
                SENATOR MOYNIHAN       202-224-4451
                SENATOR ROTH                202-224-4515