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When these changes are implemented by HHS, Americans will be able to the right to get a report from their medical providers or insurance companies detailing who has electronically accessed their protected health information.

When President Obama gave his speech on health care, he spoke as though the phrase personal responsibility did not exist.

Everyone knows that you cannot cure a sick anything -- patient or system - without a correct diagnosis. What is the diagnosis for sick, "broken" healthcare?

Do we have the right to make ourselves unhealthy? I would answer, Yes! That is part of being free.

Washington is guilty of management malpractice. Simply throwing more money into the waste of the middle will not fix health care.

What to ask our Representatives at town hall meeting, and in letters or emails.

We need an extended, all-media national dialogue, not violent, partisan town hall meetings in response to a Plan devised behind closed doors.

Complexity is considered bad in most business activities because it reduces efficiency and therefore costs money. In health care it is worse.

TennCare was a single payer approach that was tried in Tennessee in 1994. It nearly bankrupted the state, forced the governor to raise taxes, and ultimately required rationing care.

Other countries are struggling with health care system problems as big as ours. I do not suggest that health care is insoluble.