Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Three local Republican Representatives ( Adam Hasner of Boca Raton, Anitere Flores of Miami, Ellyn Bogdanoff of Fort Lauderdale) voted either against the bill to create a prescription drug database in Florida and/or sent a letter to Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday, asking him to veto a bill one of their fellow GOP leaders sponsored.
This bill will create a statewide prescription drug monitoring system to track those ''doctor shopping'' for addictive pills.
So why do they oppose it? In the letter those Republicans argue that " the sensitive personal and medical information contained
in such a database would be susceptible to cyber terrorists and criminals who would use information against the citizens of Florida."
This argument is ludicrous! Does that mean we will also stop using ATMs and Internet banking because our data could be misused by cyber terrorists or criminals? When do politicians learn that fear-based politics is leading us nowhere? We need to save lives and also stop those drug-dealers in a white coat who claim to be doctors! They are not! They are drug dealers and they know it!
I URGE you to contact the offices of those three lawmakers listed below to ask them to withdraw their opposition to the legislation.
Make your call today!!!
* Adam Hasner
o Capitol Office:
o 322 The Capitol
o 402 South Monroe Street
o Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
o Phone: (850) 488-1993
o District Office:
o 33 NE 4th Avenue
o Delray Beach, FL 33483-4528
o Phone: (561) 279-16
o
* Ellyn Bogdanoff
* Capitol Office:
* 418 The Capitol
* 402 South Monroe Street
* Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
* Phone: (850) 488-0635
* District Office:
* 1421 South Andrews Avenue
* Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316-1839
* Phone: (954) 762-375
* Anitere Flores
o Capitol Office:
324 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-2831
District Office:
Suite 205 C
1405 SW 107th Avenue
Miami, FL 33174-2523
Phone: (305) 227-7626
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The argument is not ludicrous given the events in Virginia this weekend.
"The FBI and the Virginia State Police are continuing to investigate hackers' claims that they deleted and stole more than 8 million patient records and more than 35 million prescription records from the Prescription Monitoring Program Web site before demanding $10 million in exchange for a password that would allegedly retrieve them from an encrypted file.
The hackers threatened to sell the data to the highest bidder if the demand wasn't fulfilled within seven days of the heist. However, the deadline has come and gone with no indication thus far that the hackers followed through on their threat."
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