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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (5296)	3/13/2008 5:59:40 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Removable portable data is only available when the volume has been mounted. That's both an advantage and a disadvantage. I sure don't want to have to carry it with me all the time. What a nuisance. And even if I did carry it, how would the results of my blood tests or the reading of my mammogram get on it? And even if I did carry it, it might get lost in an accident. Seems to me that a central repository is the most efficient. I suppose people could have a choice. The more valuable the data the more subject to intrusion attempts it is likely to be. I don't see how my records are valuable to anyone other than me. I recognize that in some unusual cases they might be worth a hack. Brittany's records would be worth a bunch. But that's not the norm.