The government and your prescription privacy

[lesliepear]

Take a look at this LJ entry:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/exileinparadise/151551.html?view=128255#t128255

I'm not too thrilled with government seeing all anexity, depression, sleep and painkiller prescriptions, especially since many of them can be for short term chronic conditions.

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Bureaucratic Nightmare

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

They'd probably monitor some OB/GYN who prescribed too much percoset for c-sections!

Re: Bureaucratic Nightmare

[hel_ana]

Well, to be honest with you, I suspect they're going to be more concentrating on things like

"oh, look.. Jimmy here got a prescription for a 30 day supply of OxyContin on February 5, then on February 12th, he got a second prescription for the same thing from a different doctor/pharmacy, and on the 19th, he got a third. Perhaps we should talk to jimmy"