new obamacare feature you need to know about

[aussie_musician]

is it legal for doctors to ask for someone's email address ??

 

and is it necessary ??

 

 

I don't know much about Obamacare as it is but it does seem questionable .. even being named after a President ..

 

and just on that .. can a president name a policy after himself ??

[Guest LadyC]

obamacare is a nickname for the affordable care act... which is obama's pet socialist project. as for legal, our reigning POTUS makes laws up as he goes.

[The_Patriot21]

is it legal for doctors to ask for someone's email address ??

 

and is it necessary ??

 

 

I don't know much about Obamacare as it is but it does seem questionable .. even being named after a President ..

 

and just on that .. can a president name a policy after himself ??

 

 

sure its always legal to ask for it. That has never ever been a crime. The only "question" is whether its legal to require it, which, apparently, under obamacare, it is indeed legal.

 

whether its necessary? absolutly not. In fact its probably useless as has been pointed out.

 

He didn't name it that, he named it the affordable care act-thats the "official" name. Obamacare is simply the unnofficial nickname given it originally by conservatives to mock it-because it was his landmark legislation, and now pretty much everybodies adopted it.

[ayin jade]

exactly but even then, I dont see it as an invasion of privacy, its an email address. How is that getting into your privacy? I mean we give it to everyone else under the sun, banks, organizations, online forums. . . If your that worried about it create a phony account from a email server based somewhere in china and only access it through a proxy. 

 

Only friends and family have my email addy. Im very careful who I give it to. 

[other one]

It appears to me that many of us are getting a bit too sensitive..    it's going to be interesting to see what it is for I have six email addresses that I use off and on for different purposes.. 

[The_Patriot21]

I have two, neither of which contain any sensitive information, and neither I could care if the government got ahold of. maybe their emails would be more interesting then all the nigerian scammers who somehow magically are able to find it. Though, they seemed to have stopped after I started messing with them, apparently, scammers dont like being scammed. go figure.

[Coffeespiller87]

wow that is crazy. Forcing people to give out what they should decide to give or not give out is wow. Just another way for the government to keep track of people. Its one thing if they offer it as optional as a choice. To make it mandatory and fine doctor offices is crazy.

[seekinghim!]

I work in the medical field and we do ask for e-mail's. We do a lot of stuff online, and we have what they call "patient portal" to set up a way for the patients to send e-mails to their doctors, and various other things.

[The_Patriot21]

I actually doubt they can really keep track of you via it, nor would there be any real need. The government can already access and read all your emails anyway, and as far as tracking you most people carry a cell phone-which they can locate at the click of a mouse, so they actually dont even need you to give it to them-the fact that you are giving it means they really are actually giving it to the doctors to keep you up to date on stuff.

[1x1is1]

I have two, neither of which contain any sensitive information, and neither I could care if the government got ahold of. maybe their emails would be more interesting then all the nigerian scammers who somehow magically are able to find it. Though, they seemed to have stopped after I started messing with them, apparently, scammers dont like being scammed. go figure.

 

I have thought of goofing with those scammer emails also.  I click on them once in awhile just to observe the amount of grammar mistakes made by IMPORTANT people with IMPORTANT names and titles that are responsible to dish out millions of dollars to me. Rather comical to see.  But I am never brave enough to open the links to claim my fortune.