Thursday, August 20, 2009

Turning Uncle Sam into Peeping Tom: Another target of Obamacare Americans’ right to financial privacy

The National Review reports:
Buried in the 1,017 pages of the House Democrats’ health-care bill is a little-noticed provision that for the first time could give the government access to the checking or credit-card information of every American. Under section 163, which is entitled “Administrative Simplification,” the bill sets new “standards” for electronic transactions between individuals and their health-care providers.