The Sacramento Bee, July 14, 2009 by James B. Rule
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/story/2023379.html
Creating an authoritative, fully centralized trove of all medical data on every American would focus and intensify demand for routine and acknowledged access by a range of government and private-sector interests. The ultimate result could be to render anyone’s medical history about as private as his or her credit or marital history—that is, not very private at all.