

Privacy of Ontario Health Records In Doubt 6
sys$manager writes "According to this story on Excite.ca, a bill was introduced today outlining the privacy rules for medical records in Ontario. If the bill becomes law, the Health Records of Ontarians could become open to the Goverment and Police based on nine exemptions to the privacy rules laid out in the bill." Hey, if Ontario passes this bill, they'll have almost as little privacy as we do in the US!
Re:Read Brin's book (Score:1)
Re:Read Brin's book (Score:2)
I disagree that it's a deal compared with the US system, at least all the time. Taxes in Canada are quite a bit higher than the US, so whether health care is "cheaper" for an individual or family in the US versus Canada depends on what tax bracket they're in. Whether it's better is also an open question: certainly there are lots of negative aspects to both systems.
Anyway, I appreciated your comments about the story really being about privatization. That is enlightening news, and certainly wasn't obvious from the thread so far.
Bye for now...
Lose/lose proposition (Score:1)
Obviously, though, this is freaky. I don't know which is worse, having no laws in place to protect your privacy, or having really bad laws in place to protect your privacy. On the one hand, there are no rules to protect you. On the other, it is specifically spelled out how your privacy can be legally violated.
I've seen worse... (Score:1)
Certain Information (Score:2)
Read Brin's book (Score:2)