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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (5301)	3/14/2008 12:01:49 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Would you mind carrying it with you if the memory card were the size of a credit card? I credit card size and shape would be the most palatable but I'd still have to change my practices. Right now I don't carry a purse. I keep a wallet in my pocket when I go somewhere I will need money or ID but not otherwise. I don't take it when I exercise or at the beach, for example. I suppose if I could make multiple copies, one to keep in my car, one in the house, one to carry it would be doable, but I'd still rather have it stored in a central location and not be my burden, however small that burden. And I'd like to know it's available if I'm found washed overboard and clinging to a floating tree limb. or you might have to download it later. I think that's more likely the case, particularly with the examples I offered like blood tests. That info isn't available in real time. So can you see the senior cohort doing that? Surely not. Or busy people crowding in a doctor's visit between sales appointments? It's way too unreliable as a universal solution. 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. I have never "gotten" this privacy thing. Probably never will. I guess I'm too much conditioned to objective risk analysis. Or maybe I'm just more open than most. Or maybe more lazy. I doubt there's anything in my medical history that I haven't discussed at one time or another in my ten some years on SI. I don't know why anyone would care about my test results or diagnoses or why I would care if they knew.