Political Quotes

“this is an important motion for a modest bill. It leaves this bill with an opportunity to move forward today with just one important change, and that is the addition of vital personal privacy protection of what should be genuinely personal medical records. In my youth, there was a popular song called ``I Heard it Through the Grapevine.'' These days, it's ``I saw it on the Internet.'' In this busy world of busy bodies and identity theft and commercial snooping, I believe what a patient confides to a physician about an ailment, what a young couple tells a psychologist about their marriage, what prescription a pharmacist provides, that highly personal information should not be spread and read on the Internet. The consequences of unwanted disclosure of personal health information is more than embarrassment or humiliation. It may mean the loss of a job or a promotion. It may mean that an individual refuses to confide necessary information to their doctor or avoids health care and critical medical tests because of fear that the information will be disclosed without her consent. This Administration has shown little interest in personal privacy, whether it was the privacy of library records or phone conversations or veterans' records. The Federal Government scored a D-plus on the 2005 Computer Security Report Card, with the Departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security scoring an F.…”