Consent to Treatment - Consent to the Government Poking Around Your Finances

Why is it so insulting to members of Congress to read the Health Care Bill, because little details keep emerging such as the privacy of your personal finances will be at stake. From page 58 of the bill, the government may tap your financial records electronically. Read this and weep. (Naturally, it's written in legal mumbo jumbo you'd perhaps need a lawyer to decipher, at least that's Congressman Dinkens excuse for not reading the bill.)

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(D) enable the real-time (or near real time) determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service and, to theextent possible, prior to service, including whether the individual is eligible for a specific service with a specific physician at a specific facility, which may include utilization of a machine-readable health plan beneficiary identification card;
(E) enable, where feasible, near real-time adjudication of claims;
(F) provide for timely acknowledgment, response, and status reporting applicable to any electronic transaction deemed appropriate by the Secretary;
(G) describe all data elements (such as reason and remark codes) in unambiguous
terms, not permit optional fields, require that data elements be either required or conditioned upon set values in other fields, and prohibit additional conditions; and
harmonize all common data elements across administrative and clinical transaction
standards.