Bush Signs New Prescription Bill

Published on August 13, 2005 By philomedy In Current Events

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George W. Bush has signed into law a bill that would create an electronic monitoring system to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs.

Do you hear that folks? No? Here, quiet down. Listen again...there in the distance. Do you hear it?

Rush Limbaugh weeps. (HA! Sometimes Philomedy cracks himself up!)

Anyways, back on a serious note: While I support the attempt to crack down on prescription drug abuse, there is a part of this bill that makes no sense to me. There is no part of the bill that states people have to be notified if their information is lost or stolen, along with other "privacy issues", whatever that means. And its not like this was simply overlooked. There was an amendment proposed to the bill proposed, and it was promptly shot down. Apparantly, it isn't a good idea to tell me if my personal information happens to get stolen.

Sure, they say that states have safeguards agains that and such, but what would it have hurt them to write this into the bill?

Comments

Dr Guy

on Aug 13, 2005

Rush already came clean and indeed, he would not have been buying the stuff on the black market if he was really Doc Shopping,

Think about that.

philomedy

on Aug 13, 2005

Rush already came clean and indeed, he would not have been buying the stuff on the black market if he was really Doc Shopping,Think about that.

It was a joke, and not even the main point of the article.

Under the new law, your information can be stolen and no one is obligated to tell you.

Think about that.

Dr Guy

on Aug 13, 2005

Under the new law, your information can be stolen and no one is obligated to tell you.

Think about that.

ok, I did, And it sucks. and your point is?

philomedy

on Aug 13, 2005

ok, I did, And it sucks. and your point is?

That that's what my article was about. I'm sorry if the Rush joke offended you, but that wasn't the point of what I wrote.

bakerstreet

on Aug 13, 2005

Bad idea all around. Pharmacists already monitor people's prescriptions for abuse of narcotics. This just investigates crimes before they happen, which isn't the job of law enforcement. Something needs to be done about people who "lose" their bottles and need a new one every few days, but treating everyone like a criminal isn't the way to do it.

As long as pharmacists have records, and doctors have records, I really don't see why those records need to be monitored or investigated until there is a crime to investigate.

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