new Health Rule - they can test you whether you want it or not

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13192268/


Health tests could be given without permission
Privacy experts say the federal rule for health emergencies is ripe for abuse


In a public health emergency, suspected victims would no longer have to give permission before experimental tests could be run to determine why they're sick, under a federal rule published Wednesday. Privacy experts called the exception unnecessary, ripe for abuse and an override of state informed-consent laws.

Health care workers will be free to run experimental tests on blood and other samples taken from people who have fallen sick as a result of a bioterrorist attack, bird flu outbreak, detonation of a dirty bomb or any other life-threatening public health emergency, according to the rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration.

In all other cases, the use of an experimental test still requires the informed consent of a patient, as well as the review and approval of an outside panel.

"To be candid, I hope it is a hypothetical problem. I hope we spent a lot of time creating a rule we never have to invoke," said Dr. Steve Gutman, director of the FDA's in-vitro diagnostics office.
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BALONEY said:

"Baloney," said Dr. Deborah Peel, chairwoman of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, a watchdog group. "This sounds like they're taking for themselves the right to test individuals every time they declare a public health emergency. There is no way getting consent would delay testing."

thank you Deborah for sticking up for our rights.

actually the bushmilhousegang can do whatever they want - whose to stop them?

they've managed to set up quite an elaborate scheme right under the noses of most Americans. Unfortunately most Americans don't realize the magnitude of what they've allowed themselves to be duped into. My biggest concern is why. Politicians don't just simply pass laws. They pass laws that will benefit the good of the few, not the many. So it is my great concern that someday, sometime soon, in a last ditch effort to retain control, that they will unleash a fury so devestating, that their 'doomsday' "just in case, folks" legislation will be enacted "for the good of the population."

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