How Many Thousands Of Fed. Bureaucrats Would Have Access To Your Health/Tax Records Under Obamacare?

Most of the health care debate revolves around cost and access to care, and rightfully so. Those are important issue. But an issue that should probably get more attention is privacy. Because what the Democrats are proposing would not only make your health records accessible by federal bureaucrats, but your financial records too.

Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for “affordability credits.”
Section 245(b)(2)(A) says the IRS must divulge tax return details — there’s no specified limit on what’s available or unavailable — to the Health Choices Commissioner. The purpose, again, is to verify “affordability credits.”
Section 1801(a) says that the Social Security Administration can obtain tax return data on anyone who may be eligible for a “low-income prescription drug subsidy” but has not applied for it.

Of course, given the income tax, the federal government already has access to our financial lives. In fact, on a whim an IRS auditor can knock on your door and demand to sift through your entire financial life without a warrant on the off chance that you might have committed some sort of tax fraud. This is called an “audit.”
Opening the door to government health care would simply worsen an already bad situation. In addition to our financial lives being laid bare to the government, details of our personal health would be laid bare as well. Ostensibly so that the government can determine just how much health care entitlement to give us, but the potential for abuse here is enormous.
But that’s what happens when you make yourself dependent on government. It’s not just about them giving you services. It’s not just about the taxes. It’s about letting them into your life.