American Thinker: I'm From the Government and I'm Here for Your BMI

American Thinker: I'm From the Government and I'm Here for Your BMI

Seeing the opportunity to seize more power for her department, Secretary Sebelius working with Dr. Blumenthal released their "Standards and Certification final rule," an expansive 228 page declaration of authority where on page 61, they expound on their power to monitor every American's body mass index or BMI; a measure to estimate healthy body weight.

Unfortunately, what might at first appear to be fiction is set to become political reality.

There are two grave concerns with the section 3001 of the Stimulus Bill and the government accessing our EHRs. First, the Federal government has given itself access to the most private part or our lives. While they have assured us that the information will stay private, someone from the government is reading it, so by definition the records are most certainly not private. In fact, if the Chinese can routinely hack into the computer systems of the White House, Pentagon and CIA we should suspect that a hacker of lesser means can gain access to our electronic health records on a whim. Your health records should be for you and your physician only.

The second concern we should have is what the government agents reading our healthcare records will do with the information, such as our BMI, or our blood pressure, disease history, psychological profile and everything else in your health record once they have it. The only reason that the government measures anything is to exercise some level of control over the variable that is being measured, whether citizens registering guns, completing a census, filing taxes, or any other mandatory bureaucratic paperwork.

Obama, King of the Nanny State.