http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=8798 http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/ The Winter 2012 issue of Cato Journal was devoted to the critical question of "Is Immigration Good for America?" In conjunction with its publication, we are pleased to present this special Conference, featuring presentations by many of the national experts who contributed to the publication, along with addresses by other key figures in the immigration debate. We are a nation peopled almost exclusively by immigrants or those who are descended from immigrants. More than any other major nation, we are defined by our immigrant past, present, and future. Yet there are significant incongruities between the immigration system we currently have and the one that would best serve our economic interests and our ideals as a free society. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3yY2ls5ps

Featuring Twila Brase, Author, Big Brother in the Exam Room, President, Citizens' Council for Health Freedom; Edward Lee, Executive Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, The Permanente Federation; moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included a requirement that Medicare-participating providers use electronic health records by January 1, 2014, or face financial penalties. Passed and signed into law just four weeks after the inauguration of President Obama, this expensive requirement, which had almost no public debate, forced hospitals, doctors, and clinics to move confidential patient information into digital format. Twila Brase, author of the 2018 book Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth about Electronic Health Records, says the electronic health record (EHR) is not what patients think it is. It interferes with patient care, is being used to violate patient rights, it makes sensitive data vulnerable to hackers, and it is threatening patient safety and medical excellence. She claims that what the government calls privacy rules are actually data-sharing rules. Furthermore, standardized treatment protocols and burdensome data-entry requirements are causing physician burnout and physician exodus from the practice of medicine. Government-mandated EHRs are an untested experiment that gives government and other self-interested parties outside the exam room significant control over private medical decisions. Learn more: https://www.cato.org/events/big-brother-in-the-exam-room Want to find the Cato Institute elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CatoInstitute/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/CatoInstitute/ - ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v_kw2cPtiA