Member Calls Police on CDC

First, you need to know about the push for a new medical database.

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a new rule that aligns with recommendations by the Federal Center for Disease Control to create a new database that would track you and your children’s personal medical information. The proposed rule would require medical providers submit the names, immunization status and over 75 other data points of children and other persons immunized in the state of New Hampshire.

This information would be collected and stored unless a patient or their parent specifically opts out. There are over 75 elements that would be tracked including a person’s financial status, living arrangements, ethnicity, race, class, language, “observation identifiers,” and reasons for refusing a particular substance.

Under the proposed rules, the registry will collect and store the data and provide access to the information to any person or agency authorized by the state who is concerned with the immunization or health-care screening of children. While the registry is required to keep these immunization records confidential, one of the central purposes for creating the statewide immunization registry is to provide the immunization status of children available to all authorized users, including local health districts, health-care providers, schools, and local social services district responsible for the care and custody of the children.
HSLDA is concerned that this database could result in significant privacy violations. Parents, not the government should be managing a child’s medical information and not through a state-wide database. Even if such a program were viable, at the very least it should be voluntary and operate as an “opt-in” program where people have to affirmatively give their permission for information to be stored, rather than an “opt-out” where a person must navigate a cumbersome opt out process in contact with the Department of Health and Human Services.

The proposed rules can be found here >>

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services is holding a required public hearing on proposed regulations May 22. We are encouraging concerned citizens to attend to voice their concerns and opposition to this new registry. The hearing takes place on Thursday, May 22 at 1:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the DHHS Brown Building, 129 Pleasant St., Concord, NH 03301.

Tell them you oppose proposed rule He-P 307 that would create a statewide immunization registry for all children. Keeping records of personal medical information by the state is an unwarranted invasion of personal and family privacy. Besides, private medical providers already maintain records on patients. Even if such a program were created, at the very least it should be ‘opt-in’ where individuals affirmatively grant permission for their data to be collected rather than an onerous opt-out as proposed under the rules.

In addition, the proposed rules are open for public comment until May 29. You may contact Michael Holt at the DHHS. The contact information for public comment is:

Michael Holt, Rules Coordinator
Dept. of Health and Human Services
Administrative Rules Unit
129 Pleasant St.
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 271-9234
michael.holt@dhhs.state.nh.us

Many parents are concerned about the medical risks of vaccinations. Parents, not the government, should have the right to make medical decisions, such as vaccinating their children. Parents should also have the ability to choose whether or not to place their children’s immunization history on an immunization registry. Making it harder to opt out of placing sensitive medical information on a registry restricts a parent’s right to monitor their children’s medical history. If this rule passes, many parents may become unaware that they can opt of sharing their children’s immunization history.

Furthermore, the Center for Disease Control, in conjunction with the US Department of Commerce, the US Census Bureau, the US Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with a myriad of other agencies listed on its brochure, is coming door to door in NH with something called a National Health Interview Survey.

The survey brochure claims among other things that your information is to be held in the strictest confidence and to be used only to further ‘national health objecives’, etc.

When one of our members was contacted, she did not answer her door. The second time she told the survey taker she was not interested. She was then called on the phone at least three times to see if she had ‘changed her mind’. The survey taker then appeared at her door once again at which time she did not answer it and instead called the police. The officer who answered the call picked up the phone and told the CDC to stay away.

Before the government can control something, they have to know what it is, how it is used, etc. The next step is taxation, control, or even confiscation. Many of us have already had our health insurance plans confiscated, what’s next?

Related: http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2012/08/17/creeping-enviro-tyranny-must-be-stopped/