ObamaCare wants to know: How many people are you having sex with at the moment?

Betsy McCaughey is one of the most astute followers of the ugly details of ObamaCare, and she's reporting in today's New York Post that the infamous individual mandate requires you to do more than just buy insurance. It also requires your doctor to ask you certain questions so the informtion can be stored in the digital database that will be available to insurance carriers. McCaughey has more:

Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law. “This is nasty business,” says New York cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski. He called the sex questions “insensitive, stupid and very intrusive.” He couldn’t think of an occasion when a cardiologist would need such information — but he knows he’ll be pushed to ask for it. The president’s “reforms” aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients’ records confidential.

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Embarrassing though it may be, you confide things to a doctor you wouldn’t tell anyone else. But this is entirely different. Doctors and hospitals who don’t comply with the federal government’s electronic-health-records requirements forgo incentive payments now; starting in 2015, they’ll face financial penalties from Medicare and Medicaid. The Department of Health and Human Services has already paid out over $12.7 billion for these incentives.

This is the government's sneaky little way of mandating things without "really" mandating them. You don't have to ask the questions, but if you'd like these incentive dollars . . . You don't have to buy health insurance, but if you'd like to avoid paying this fine, er, tax, or whatever we want to call it today . . . Once the information is in the database, it is theoretically kept private. Sort of like all that stuff Facebook promises you will be private, so long as no one screws up, or breaks the rules intentionally. Why exactly does your dermatologist need to know how many people you've slept with? Because the law says he does, that's why. The New York Civil Liberties Union is now weighing in with concerns about this, and have you noticed how left-wingers who usually pimp for Obama's agenda - like unions - are suddenly discovering there are elements to ObamaCare that are horrifying? And hey, HHS has a way out for you. If you don't want to answer the questions, just avoid the insurance racket altogether and pay cash. Of course, they'll fine, er tax, you if you do that. But there's your way out. The only question they can't ask you, oddly enough, is if you own a firearm. Otherwise, you'd better have a good handle on your sexual activities, because the government wants to know. And hey, being too drunk at the bar last night to remember who you hooked up with is no excuse! Health care reform is too important.