> One day they bitch about invasion of privacy the next day they want the same people to have every bit of control over their health care. Well guess what, you cannot have it both ways.
This is just as flawed as the arguments that giving the government access to your email is no big deal because you gave access to Google, and they're a massive organization too, right?
I have no problem with Medicare having access to the health records of every American. Single-payer healthcare is a great system. This is completely tangential to giving the NSA/FBI similar access to information.
Comparatively speaking, it might actually be more difficult for the NSA to get unwarranted access to government medical records, since we have extensive laws on the books protecting such data. Your argument is an absolute red herring.
Not sure why you're getting the downvote. This is obviously true.
It's also important to consider not just the size of the organization, but the nature and extent of its powers. For instance, Google - no matter how big - cannot arrest you, try you, convict you, or imprison you. Your health insurer isn't going to send the Marines to attack another nation, no matter how many doctors they have in their network. I could go on, but the point should be clear: military and law enforcement have a unique - and uniquely dangerous - set of powers. Accordingly, they operate under structures for accountability unlike those that exist anywhere else. The extraordinary trust they're given in some areas is balanced by a distinctly high and formalized level of distrust in others (e.g. actions that are subject to prior judicial review and approval).
So contrary to what you insist, we can give some powers to some organizations, withhold the same power from others. And we can base those organization's ability exist and operate legally on the degree to which they respect and abide by these divisions, and the rule of law.
When it turns out that (a) they don't and (b) we can't respond to these violations, it's a signal that the most basic arrangement keeping our society viable is coming undone. That's a problem that needs to be solves. But thanks to the principle of divided power, it doesn't mean we have to give up intelligent arrangements for sending email or handling health care data in order to keep the police and military in line.
This is just as flawed as the arguments that giving the government access to your email is no big deal because you gave access to Google, and they're a massive organization too, right?
I have no problem with Medicare having access to the health records of every American. Single-payer healthcare is a great system. This is completely tangential to giving the NSA/FBI similar access to information.
Comparatively speaking, it might actually be more difficult for the NSA to get unwarranted access to government medical records, since we have extensive laws on the books protecting such data. Your argument is an absolute red herring.