Gov Scott has a Change of Heart

Nice!

Both are good moves IMO, but #1 will hopefully help us save money, fight crime, and lives!

Nice!

Both are good moves IMO, but #1 will hopefully help us save money, fight crime, and lives!

.. and track your every drug purchase.

I currently have to show photo ID and undergo the Spanish Inquisition to buy OTC cold meds once a year.

And BCBS, the IRS, Target, my doctor, and my accountant already keep records of all my drug purchases.

I currently have to show photo ID and undergo the Spanish Inquisition to buy OTC cold meds once a year.

And BCBS, the IRS, Target, my doctor, and my accountant already keep records of all my drug purchases.

You're using a law that invades our privacy to justify a new law that invades our privacy even more. That's broken logic.

No, that was the "whooptie freaking do" defense.

I don't care - my meds are already being recorded and tracked by many parties - even some non-prescription ones.

I find it ridiculous that we don't track dangerous ones that have earned us the "#1 pill-mill state" designation.

No, that was the "whooptie freaking do" defense.

I don't care - my meds are already being recorded and tracked by many parties - even some non-prescription ones.

I find it ridiculous that we don't track dangerous ones that have earned us the "#1 pill-mill state" designation.

Why do you feel the need to control people's lives for them? Live and let live I always say.

I don't feel the need to control people's lives. I feel the need to make it easy for law enforcement to catch lawbreakers.

If you want to gobble pills, have at it and don't get behind the wheel.

I want to prosecute the dealers and doctors.

I don't feel the need to control people's lives. I feel the need to make it easy for law enforcement to catch lawbreakers.

If you want to gobble pills, have at it and don't get behind the wheel.

I want to prosecute the dealers and doctors.

..by negatively impacting the lives of people who honorably purchase these drugs. There are two sides to every coin.

I'll bet his backers are thrilled over this turn to the FED over the state.

..by negatively impacting the lives of people who honorably purchase these drugs. There are two sides to every coin.

How exactly are they negatively impacted?

I very much doubt that anyone who is "honorably purchasing these drugs" is doing so with cash payments and no prescription.

That means records and a paper trail already exist - because a licensed physician recorded and produced a physical prescription, that was verified by a licensed pharmacist at a pharmacy, that is probably part of a chain with computerized records, and odds are that they used insurance and/or a government program to reduce their costs.

Existing laws prevent anyone from finding out WHY these people are using these drugs without getting a court order.

So what is the harm?

How exactly are they negatively impacted?

I very much doubt that anyone who is "honorably purchasing these drugs" is doing so with cash payments and no prescription.

That means records and a paper trail already exist - because a licensed physician recorded and produced a physical prescription, that was verified by a licensed pharmacist at a pharmacy, that is probably part of a chain with computerized records, and odds are that they used insurance and/or a government program to reduce their costs.

Existing laws prevent anyone from finding out WHY these people are using these drugs without getting a court order.

So what is the harm?

None of this information has names attached to it. Medical records are heavily protected, what goes on between you and your doctor is between you and your doctor. With the drug database, the government of the state of florida will be tracking the drugs you and I purchase, they will also share that data with other states. Law enforcement will have access to the data. (Do they have to go to a judge for that?) You trust these governments to not abuse this information? What if mistakes are made? It's a principal issue for me, I don't feel government should have data like this.

I think it is so cute that you think the government doesn't ALREADY have much more personal information.

My medical records are accessed either through my name and date of birth or my social security number (because that's how my insurance company keeps track of it).

And I'm not on Cobra, Medicare, Medicaid, a federal employee, or a Veteran so they don't already have a direct link.

It is because medical records are protected that I am less concerned about this - I made the suggestion months that they should just classify airport body scans as medical info and solve any privacy concerns that way.

Good move Scotty--guess he now knows how rough it can be to continually have to plead the fifth, as in his last deposition.

Update - appears it wasn't so much Scott having a change of heart as the Federal Government deciding to take action because the problem was getting so ridiculous.

The pill database will be in all 50 states, not just Florida.

Florida is by far the worst - our doctors prescribe 85% of these pills, more than all the other 49 states combined.

US aims to kill Florida pill mills - Health - Addictions - msnbc.com

AP IMPACT: After 40 years, $1 trillion, US War on Drugs has failed to meet any of its goals - FoxNews.com

More money wasted on the failed federal War On Drugs.