Every day the news for ObamaCare just gets worse. As we reported a few days ago, much of the supposed savings that was to come from ObamaCare is now reversed and the cost estimates are soaring. And before you watch the video below, which should scare the daylights out of you, let’s talk about electronic health records. FemiSex has long warned that the supposed cost savings of electronic medical records is as much myth as anything and, in fact, for those of us who have worked as health care providers, a likely effect would be to drive up costs. Well, guess what?

A new national survey of health care IT security professionals shows that patients may be surrendering their privacy as the $2.5 trillion medical industry — prompted by federal stimulus funding — pushes to accelerate the pace of digitizing health information records. The study, sponsored by LogLogic and independently conducted by the Ponemon Institute, surveyed 542 senior IT practitioners from health care organizations about how secure they believe electronic patient medical records are.

The October 2009 Ponemon report found that:

From the start this site has been critical of the Obama-proffered assumption that electronic medical records will save billions of bucks and allow for millions of uninsured to be covered. We’ve pointed to dozens of esteemed doctors who point out the pitfalls.
inherent in such an assumption.

The American Medical Association has announced it opposes Obama’s plan to nationalize health care.
“The A.M.A. does not believe that creating a public health insurance option for non-disabled individuals under age 65 is the best way to expand health insurance coverage and lower costs. The introduction of a new public plan threatens to restrict patient choice by driving out private insurers, which currently provide coverage for nearly 70 percent of Americans,” the group said in a statement.