Loss of Privacy

EPISODE 1

Full Version Wake Up Call Episode 1 – No Decision About Me Without Me – Full Version from Health Emergency on Vimeo.

Dr John Lister blows away the slick marketing of the government’s plans for the NHS. His witty speech reveals their true intent – to fragment and privatise the health service.

Peppered with jokes and cartoons from the likes of Steve Bell, the film is an easily understood and amusing explanation of how the NHS, as we now know it, will be demolished, if these plans succeed.

John Lister shows us why the plans, at urgent risk of slipping through in a fog of jargon and promotional spin, will be disastrous for NHS patients and staff.

If you care about your health service and want to know what is in store for it, then watch this video and pass the link on to friends, family and colleagues NOW!

Produced for Keep Our NHS Public www.keepournhspublic.com and for Health Emergency www.healthemergency.org.uk

EPISODE 2

Wake Up Call Episode 2 “A Betrayal of Trust” from Health Emergency on Vimeo.

A film by Anne-Marie Sweeney produced for Keep Our NHS Public and Health Emergency

Sugar Coating the Bitter Bill.

Louise Irvine is a GP in the deprived area of New Cross. She shows how trusted GPs are being used to sugar coat the denationalisation of the NHS, proposed in the government’s Health and Social Care Bill.

Dr Irvine explains with care and compassion, how this bitterly unacceptable bill will harm patient care and break up ‘the NHS family’.

Simply and without jargon, she makes clear why local GPs will actually have less control over their patients’ treatment if it is not scrapped.

Dr Irvine reveals the serious implications that this will have on patient trust.

If you want to know just why so many people in the NHS are in opposition to Lansley’s Bill, then take 15 minutes to watch this video. Find out why the bill will be hugely costly to the NHS budget and will seriously damage our health.

I don’t care if he really is an asshole. I love when politicians do this sort of thing.

via reddit.

Peoria, Arizona is pursuing the idea of forcing customers to give up their fingerprints in order to get some medicines labeled as likely to be abused and involved in cases of fraud.

Peoria law-enforcement officials this month proposed an ordinance that would require anyone filling prescriptions for drugs such as OxyContin and Percocet to show ID and be fingerprinted at the pharmacy counter, including anyone picking up a prescription for a family member or friend.

Dan Pochoda, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, called it an “overreaction.”

Indeed it is a huge overreaction and an invasion of privacy. There are many people who take certain drugs on a regular basis and do not want to be in some database simply because they might need this medicine to live.

Pochoda of the ACLU said that to collect fingerprints of everyone filling a prescription is “like saying we’ll take a blood sample of every person, and later if they are a suspect we’ll use it.”

Details of the plan will be presented to Arizona State Board of Pharmacy in January. Currently, the state tracks certain prescriptions in an effort to track “doctor shoppers” and abuse drugs such as those containing pseudoephedrine.

Peoria City Attorney Steve Kemp is pushing for the measure to be made into law. While prescription fraud cases have increased in the city of Peoria, it is still relatively small compared to legitimate prescriptions. It is also not understood how the data will be collected or stored. What drugs would be on the list requiring fingerprints has also not been released.

Medical privacy would also be of concern. How would HIPAA laws be protected? Will the fingerprint database be connected to other pharmacies. Will it simply be added to the current criminal database? If there are two databases, who would be authorized to have access to it? If something like this were made a law, your fingerprints would likely be accessible to police, pharmacies, doctor’s offices, and insurance companies.

This proposed ordinance would be a huge infringement of individual rights. It will not have the desired effect that government officials are hoping for. Those who are going to abuse these drugs will simply drive a few miles down the road and get their prescription filled in another city or simply steal the drugs. It will only affect, and hurt, honest citizens who must take the medications that the city deems to be on their abusive list.

If passed, the city only need to sit back and wait for the first person denied their medication because they refuse to give up their fingerprints to sue after suffering without their medication. Given the fact that most fingerprint scanners are easily fooled, this program is doomed to failure. Hopefully, the city of Peoria realizes this before implementing it.

Great article about this useless vaccine over on Eyes Wide Shut.

Here are my previous articles on the HPV vaccine:

How it can cause cancer.

Side effects.

Merck and Texas Governor Rick Perry help rush the HPV vaccine to market.

I have reported in the past that the HPV vaccine seemed wholly unnecessary, especially given the face that there was little evidence that the vaccine worked and it was rushed through testing. Now, a new report claims that not only is it unnecessary, it might even cause the cancer it’s meant to prevent.

The FDA report and the petition [pdf] for reclassification of the HPV vaccine reveals some interesting facts, including the fact that HPV might actually increase the risk of precancerous lesions by 44.6%, HPV is not the cause of cervical cancer, and that HPV is mostly self-limiting and causes no real danger to women.

The FDA news release of March 31, 2003 acknowledges that “most infections (by HPV) are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer”, in recognition of the advances in medical science and technology since 1988. In other words, since 2003 the scientific staff of the FDA no longer considers HPV infection to be a high-risk disease when writing educational materials for the general public whereas the regulatory arm of the agency is still bound by the old classification scheme that had placed HPV test as a test to stratify risk for cervical cancer in regulating the industry.

This proves that the FDA knew, at least as far back as 2003, that HPV did not cause cervical cancer, yet they marketed the vaccine as such.

It is difficult to take an honest look at this scientific evidence and the statements made by the FDA and not come to the conclusion that mandatory Gardasil vaccination policies being pushed across U.S. states right now are based on something other than science.

The prevailing theories are financial gains for pharmaceutical companies and those that support them, a conspiracy to poison people, getting people used to submitting to whatever the government tells them is for the greater good. While the two conspiracy ideas could be plausible, I tend to lead towards greed as it’s usually the true reason people do these sorts of things.

NaturalNews does a great job of detailing all the dirty deeds that have gone on behind the scenes, including the fact that the Gardisil vaccine can cause precancerous lesions and it does more harm than good. Their report, at 9 pages, is long, but it’s well worth the read, especially if you have young women in your family who might be forced to take this vaccine.