It is rather a narrow viewpoint however, If this was sponsored by the repubs it would be an invasion of privacy.
Why does the govt need to know more about you and you no less about your govt?
I deal with HIPPA and for the most part it is based on common sense, only the minimum amount of private information is to be revealed on a need to know basis. The doctor making decisions gets to know more than the someone who doesn't have direct responsibility for the patient. If the new law follows HIPPA, it might be okay.
There is another side to HIPPA, namely that the common sense bedrock for the law has morphed into massive amounts of the red tape that always seems to follow government activity.
You have to take the bad with the good, and try to minimize the bad, I suppose.
One more point about the article/hatchet job. Since Obama isn't proposing a single payer plan (that I am aware of) what was the purpose of the tirade against something that won't be in the Bill?
I'm from the govt .. I'm here to help you.
I do trust most people ... I just don't trust some of the people - like the ones who have twisted the Patriot act into something monstrous. Perhaps you have a good feeling that this loss of privacy will be OK ... but I am more skeptical.
HIPPA was created to preserve privacy, and it sort of actually does that.
My support is an "IF/THEN kind of deal. IF it works like HIPPA, THEN it might be okay. Naturally I want to know exactly what is going to be involved and who is going to pay, and as someone who sells health care services, I want to know who is going to benefit and who is going to suffer if this stuff becomes law.
(I have noticed that no one presently looks to see if a person's overall care is sensible or cost-effective. The present system breaks care down into tiny chunks which are highly regulated but disconnected from each other. No one is at the helm looking to see if things are going in the right direction. Don't even get my personal doc started on this crap.)
General Motors, now you can demand and expect the same quality of customer service, cost control methods you expect from your local post office.
Gramps
Two observations;
1) This isn't an object review of the Bill, it is a partisan hatchet job.
2) There isn't much threat to the Fourth Amendment here, certainly a lot less than from the Patriot Act.