Deirdre Balmer – 11/2/10

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Privacy is a huge issue in outsourcing; Deirdre Balmer; Beaver County Times; November 2, 2010.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I am writing about the outsourcing of transcription jobs at Heritage Valley to India.”

[RWC] Two other of today’s letters expressed the same privacy concerns as this letter. I believe Ms. Balmer meant “offshoring,” not “outsourcing.” Outsourcing is when a business contracts with another business to perform some functions. For example, a business may contract with a janitorial business for cleaning services instead of doing the cleaning with its own employees.

“I don’t want my information transcribed in India. I sign a multitude of privacy statements about my information for the United States but have never been asked about any other country.

“I have a huge issue not knowing if my privacy is intact in India.

“You have had people working faithfully for years and you just throw them out with the trash. There was no offer to work within the hospital. They were just let go the same day.”

[RWC] Have you noticed how some people believe employers must be loyal to employees but never criticize employees for changing employers?

“You should be ashamed of yourselves taking jobs from Americans and giving them away to India or any other foreign country.”

[RWC] To have any credibility on the privacy issue, Ms. Balmer and like-minded individuals need to convince us they want to see income taxes eliminated and they oppose government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare like Obamacare. Why? What greater invasion of privacy is there than the financial “full body cavity search” we go through every year when we must detail every aspect of our finances for multiple levels of government (income taxes, property taxes, etc.)? Perhaps the only greater invasion of privacy may be the access to our healthcare records required by socialized healthcare programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, SCHIP, et cetera.