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

To: Lane3 who wrote (5297)	3/14/2008 11:43:24 AM
From: Peter Dierks	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. I have a two gigabyte memory card in my phone that is the size of my pinkie fingernail. Would you mind carrying it with you if the memory card were the size of a credit card? The size would be large enough for the interface of the the integrated biometric scanner to protect your data; it would not have to be any larger. A CCD retinal scanner might be smaller that a fingerprint scanner. I assume that medical providers would immediately record new data on your personal vault before you departed; or you might have to download it later. Providing the ability to backup the data to one or more duplicate card(s) periodically would be easy. I don't see how my records are valuable to anyone other than me. IMHO it would bee more subject to intrusion than you imagine. For sure I would rather act like everyone wants it and find out later that no one wants it than hope that no one wants my data and discover later how wrong the assumption was.