{"id":13406,"date":"2010-09-10T07:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13406"},"modified":"2010-09-10T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T12:45:53","slug":"wages-of-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13406","title":{"rendered":"Wages Of Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They said that if I voted for John McCain, the government would trash our property rights like John Bonham trashing a hotel room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2010\/09\/08\/669723\/lists-of-pain-pillpatients-sought.html\">And they were right<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances.<\/p>\n<p>The state sheriff&#8217;s association pushed the idea Tuesday, saying the move would help them make drug arrests and curb a growing problem of prescription drug abuse. But patient advocates say opening up people&#8217;s medicine cabinets to law enforcement would deal a devastating blow to privacy rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the purported cost savers in Obamacare is electronic medical records kept &#8211; eventually &#8211; in a national database.<\/p>\n<p>And when the government controls your data, your data is only as safe as the least power-hungry or dishonest government official wants it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said that if I voted for John McCain, the government would trash our property rights like John Bonham trashing a hotel room. And they were right: Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances. The state sheriff&#8217;s association pushed the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13407,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions\/13407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}