CCHC LEGISLATIVE ALERT! -
Please Attend, Testify, CALL Members OR Send Testimony!

MN HOUSE Health Care and Human Services Policy Committee
Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 2, 2010
3:15 p.m. (see agenda at BOTTOM of this email)
Chair Paul Thissen

To Testify: (651) 296-3244 or send written testimony by NOON to Kate Perushek, Committee Administrator (Kate.Perushek@house.mn)
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Call CCHC is you're coming to let us know: 651-646-8935

Tomorrow, March 2, Rep. Tom Huntley (D-Duluth) will try to mandate that every person's medical record be placed online and made available to state government, researchers, federal government and others. All without your consent.

If this bill, HF 3279, becomes law, it will likely means:

1) The complete end of medical privacy
2) No access to a new and fresh second opinion
3) State and federal tracking and control of medical decisions through financial penalties and threat of discipline.
4) Patients become subjects of government and other research without their consent
5) Patient data will be linked to the NHIN (National Health Information Network to be created with $20 billion in stimulus grants)
6) Medical record will become a lifelong linked record of your personal, medical and mental health history - no place to run, no place to hide.
7) MN Dept of Health would get expedited rule-making to prevent CCHC from forcing them to hold a public hearing.

Also tomorrow, Rep. Diane Loeffler (D-Mpls), brings a bill to create a central registry of all patients treated or admitted with traumatic injuries. HF 3098 will establish a statewide government trauma database for research and the tracking and monitoring of patients. What this will mean:

1) All patients with Traumatic Brain, Spinal Cord, Work-Related, Burn, Firearm, Fireworks and Trauma injuries will be databased and tracked by the government.
2) Patient consent will specifically not be required.
3) Information on the individual (name, address, etc), time and location of injury, condition of the person, and treatment, diagnosis and other medical conditions, outcome and disposition, and "other information required by the Commissioner" will be reported to the State and databased.
4) Reporters of the data are specifically made immune to liability (lawsuits from you)
5) Patient data will be used for government and other research without consent.

COMMITTEE AGENDA
TUESDAY, March 2, 2010 *** Note: *** Change in meeting time 3:15 PM Meeting Time Note: The committee will recess and reconvene at 6:30 PM in room 200 Room: 200 State Office Building Chair: Rep. Paul Thissen Bill(s) Added Agenda: HF2995 (Tillberry) Diagnosis qualifications of attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder expanded. HF2969 (Ruud) Health licensing technical provisions modified. HF1503 (Abeler) Massage therapist licensure and fees established, and penalties provided. HF3088 (Hayden) Children and family service technical and policy provisions changed, Minnesota family investment program and adult supports provisions changed, and child welfare provisions changed. HFXXXX (Abeler) Licensing provisions modified HF3279 (Huntley) Electronic health record technology HF3098 (Loeffler) Statewide trauma system provisions modified. HF3019 (Hayden) Protecting Children and Strengthening Families Act created, report required, and money appropriated. HF3039 (Hayden) Driver's license requirements modified for foster children, in-court reviews required, and definition of parent expanded for child protection proceedings. HF3046 (Ruud) Birthing centers licensure established. HF3059 (Ruud) Pregnant women mandatory reporting requirements modified. HF2938 (Thissen) Persons with disabilities licensure programs and provisions modified. HF3086 (Thissen) Access to health records provided to surviving domestic partners, and domestic partners included in provisions governing health care rights, consent to autopsies, and anatomical gifts. HF2959 (Lesch) Sick leave for certain workers standards established, civil penalties provided, and rulemaking required. *HF3019 is informational only *HF2995, HF2969, and HF1503 are division reports. No testimony will be taken.