If You Think About It, This Is Really Pretty Fascist Plan From A Supposedly Centre-Left Victorian Government!

This appeared a few days ago: Push to make Victoria ’s consent-free digital health database opt-in Denham Sadler National Affairs Editor 18 May 2022 The Victorian government’s plan for a centralised health database for all people with no consent has been labelled “bureaucratic imperialism” and “inherently dangerous”, with a last minute push to allow people to opt-out from it. The state government is attempting to pass legislation facilitating the establishment of a centralised electronic patient health information sharing system for health services to share health information to provide medical care. The bill was debated in the Victorian upper house last week but did not come to a vote. It will likely be voted on when Parliament sits again next week. The health record will be used by state hospitals, ambulance services, certain residential care services and public health services, with information stored in it to include p rescribed medicines, allergies, discharge summaries and lab... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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