Medical privacy threatened

Think you control who can see and use your medical records? Think again--amendments to the privacy rule eliminated your ability to control access to your most sensitive records. I just sent a letter to Congress that I want to control who can see and use my private medical records and I encourage you to do the same. Please take a moment to send a letter to your Representative today.

http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Protect_Your_Privacy


And things aren't any better with consumer information, either. I give up -- I'm going to pay the fee to keep people from being able to open accounts without my knowing about it.

These decisions should be opt-out, not opt-in! In fact, 401(k) should be opt-out!

Coda -- plagarism, or current speech patterns?

Okay, this is getting crazy. I saw what they were calling "similarities" to the Cabot book, etc. And that's just not close enough on its own. This may be the packager's fault, but if you're paying attention to current speech patterns of kids, this could happen.

Lord and Lady, I'm switching to private publishing. And now we know what happens when you get caught -- no one will trust you ever again.

http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=50263901&subject=entertainment

Curious ... what do you think?

So -- the British are twice as healthy as Americans. Economic group doesn't seem to matter.

Theories, anyone? (Of course we can't reply to anything, LJ must be up to something.)

http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=50263912&subject=health