San Diego Health Connect

I just received a letter from Sharp Healthcare informing me that I had until March 20^th 2015 to inform them that I want to be opted out of being forced to use this new organization that transfers all your health information (what ever that means, as I was not able to get a full explanation from the Ex. Director Dan Chavez today) between Dr. s, hospitals and who knows who else.
When I received this letter and attempted to contact Sharp to demand that they stop signing me up for things I never gave them consent to do, of course I could not get through to them. I then contact Dan at San Diego Health Connect. This is what I found out about this company.
1. He denied that anyone is being opted in without their consent.
2. He denies that anyone owns this organization. As a matter of fact he insists that «THE COMMUNITY» owns it. He refused to clarify COMMUNITY.
3. He stated that they received a «Beacon Grant» from UCSD to start this company (org).
4. He admitted that they are not burdened by any state regulations.
5. This organization is answerable to no one, least of all the people (us) of whom their medical health information they are handling.
6. His perspective is that somehow this company and others sprouting up all over the state by different names is going to somehow lower the cost of healthcare.
I don’t see how that is possible by just adding more layers of other companies that will be taken part of the monies that are suppose to be devoted for your actual healthcare and not these types of companies that just keep popping up.
I have to admit that as a business owner this business model perfect. Set it up as a nonprofit so no one pays taxes and not have to be burdened with rules, laws and regulations while at the same time having access to ever single persons medical & health information that has seen a medical provider. By the by, Health Information includes everything about you including date of birth, Social Security Number, and and all health conditions, medications you’ve ever taken.
These are types of protected information that before this you had to sign an «AUTHORIZATION TO RELEASE INFORMATION» form before anyone could access it. They have somehow gotten around these federal and state laws.
Create a so called nonprofit company (that does not mean it doesn’t make money, just that it doesn’t have to pay taxes on the money it earns.) that forces unsuspecting people (all of us) to be participants in this scheme. Please don’t forget they are unregulated, unanswerable and beholding to none of us.
They do not have a privacy policy other then to send you to HIPPA which they seemed to bypass.
Please take the time to write to your representative.