OT: Obamacare

All documents must be surrendered to Barack Obama, for any purpose he deems worthy. That's Obamacare.

Available? To virtually everyone, with some pretense of control. It means nothing. The Obama clan's already accessed their political enemies' supposedly protected, private tax records.

The whole point of privacy is that it's something private to YOU, it's yours, and you keep it as private as you see fit. Being required to disclose it to the gov't and their million closest friends defeats that, even if they promise not to tell.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

That your idea of Obamacare.

Example? Your capacity for re-interpreting reality in terms of your own bizarre misapprehensions has been exhibited here often enough that your unsubstatniated claims aren't worth thinking about.

Yet you reveal your income to the Internal Revenue. Revealing your infectious diseases to the public health authorities is probably even more important to the public good.

You may not think that your colonoscopy had much to do with infective diseases - and it usually doesn't - but it can exclude certain parasitic infestations.

Privacy is nice, but other considerations can be more important.

As for the million closest friends? Try - just once - to exercise your lively imagination to generate a proposition that might contradict your favourite politcal delusions. You don't need to publish it, but the exercise would do you good.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen