[PROVE] URGENT OPPOSE SB 1186; Stop Another Assault on Medical Privacy

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IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED: OPPOSE SB 1186

Dear Texas PROVE Members,

Please call, fax and email your State Representative, Calendars committee

members, and others listed below to STOP SB 1186.

Tell them: YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION TAKEN WITHOUT CONSENT.

NO TO MANDATORY TRACKING OR A REGISTRY AT ANY TIME.

THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOULD NOT RECEIVE OR KEEP INFORMATION WITHOUT A PARENT'S

KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT.

CHANGING THE REGISTRY TO " OPT-OUT " AT AGE 18 FOR THOSE CHILDREN ALREADY IN IS

DISHONEST.

SAY NO TO THE CREATION OF AN ADULT REGISTRY BY DEFAULT.

In an attempt to once again gain access to all Texans' medical information

without their prior knowledge or consent, SB 1186 was amended in the House

Public Health committee by Representative Donna , under the guise of

disaster preparedness. Our re presentatives are being told this is necessary to

receive money under a federal grant program. TELL YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS YOUR

MEDICAL PRIVACY IS NOT FOR SALE ! Make sure you explain that the consent

referenced in the bill is a sham. It only determines where information will be

stored, not if it will be sent. Consent should be obtained at the provider

level, and if it isn't granted, then the information should remain between the

patient and provider.

This bill creates a mandatory registry in preparation for a POTENTIAL disaster.

SB 1186 creates an adult registry by default. The bill allows the health

department to keep information on children currently in the registry after they

turn 18, until their death, unless they " opt-out " . Those parents that gave

consent for their children's information to be included in the registry did so

believing it would be removed at age 18.

In the event of POTENTIAL disaster or a real on e, this bill fails to

acknowledge or recognize people who shouldn't be or don't want to be given an

immunization or drug. There are no exemptions. The point of a registry like this

is to find and force everyone to use the recommended drugs and vaccines. Federal

law allows for the use of experimental immunizations and drugs in the event an

emergency is declared. People should have the right to informed consent, and

those consenting should be protected from false alarms or unnecessary claims of

disaster by a very strict legal definition, not the word POTENTIAL. Products and

people causing harm in this situation are completely protected from liability.

This bill requires the department by rule to develop guidelines to determine the

process by which consent is verified. This means that an unelected bureaucrat,

unaccountable to the people of Texas, heading a department with a record of

disregarding the law with respect to the use of patient information wil l have

total control over consent acquisition and verification. Consent is a sham.

The same unelected bureaucrat will be allowed to determine by rule the

information contained in the immunization record. All boundaries for what can be

taken from the medical record and stored have been removed.

We have continued to ask for the same thing from legislators for ten years - no

release of information to the department without prior knowledge or consent. It

has become clear through the constant incremental erosion of medical privacy

that many (both D's and R's) in the legislature have no interest in serving the

people of this state where this issue is concerned, only the lobby seems to

matter. Not one citizen, without a tie to the medical industry, stood at any of

these hearings claiming a need for the state to inject themselves into their

private medical records. Not one unencumbered citizen stood there asking the

state to sellout medical pri vacy for federal grant money. Not one person

claimed to be so full of fear and impending doom that they felt incapable of

caring for themselves or their families without the oversight of Big Brother

Bureaucracy. Please help send a loud message to our elected officials - STOP SB

1186.

Please place your calls and send your letters. Start today and continue through

the weekend. They will be working.

Please be polite and give the aide your name and the city you are calling from.

Your State Representative can be located at

http://www.house.state.tx.us/resources/faq.htm#who_rep .

Speaker of the House, Tom Craddick Fax:

Calendars Committee Members are:

Representative Wooley, Chair Fax:

Representative Chavez, V-Chair Fax:

Rep resentative Branch Fax:

Representative Crownover Fax:

Representative Dukes Fax:

Representative Elkins Fax: 512-472 5610

Representative Guillen Fax:

Representative Hamilton Fax:

Representative Fax:

Representative Fax:

Representative Van Arsdale Fax:

You may go to http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/Members.htm to find your

Senator and send emails from their individual websites. It is important to let

them know th at the changes made in the House to SB 1186 are unacceptable.

Include Lieutenant Governor Dewhurst in communications.

Thank you for your help and continued support.

Rex

Co-Founder PROVE

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