Politics: Many YA Liberals and Conservatives Want the Government to Have Access to Medical Records?

Question by All Star: Politics: Many YA liberals and conservatives want the government to have access to medical records?
as part of gun ownership background checks. i can understand criminal or arrest records, or for people who make violent threats, but medical records (behavorial therapy, drug addiction, mental health treament, etc)?
what happened to the Constitutional Right to Privacy that people always insist on?

(i put “liberals and conservatives,” so as not to target any one side).

Best answer:

Answer by Liberal Pothead
I want the government to take care of me, so yes.

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