S S Number

[Glassfixer]

Hi everybody. When you all go to the doctors office and you are filling out their paper work? Do you give out your S.S. number. I refuse to, as they already have my picture ID. in a drivers license, my credit card, health insurance card and phone number. More then enough to make sure that they get paid. The only thing else that is missing for possible ID. theft is that series of numbers.
My wife says I'm just being stubborn and gives them one of these :roll: , and they take me anyway. What say you all.
- Glassfixer

 

[RSIno1]

They don't need it. It's just an info grab.

 

[hittman]

Your wife is correct.

 

[blume357]

What exactly can they do with your social security number?

I keep hoping 'they' will sell my number to some illegal alien who will use it to get a good paying job and the employer will then take out and pay income tax on it and then I'll get the rebate for paying too much.

 

[Fox Mike]

Our doctor retired and we had to find a new one. Our former docs secretary was moving on with another one and told us about him. We selected him and were sent a ream of paperwork to complete prior to our first visit. There were two questions that I would not answer. The first was : "SSAN' and the second was :"Do you have any unsecured weapons in your household?" Some information the doc needs; neither of those two are concerned with MY health.

 

[contender]

Federal law; The SSN is not to be used for ID purposes. I don't give mine up unless absolutely necessary.

 

[prairieviper]

I've never had a health care provider ask for it. I wouldn't give it if they did.

 

[hittman]

Your SSN is far more secure with your healthcare provider than with any government agency ...... especially the VA.

 

[ronto]

Not since the SS# was replaced with the new Medicare ID card.

 

[Kevin]

Hardly ever asked for my ssn number anymore. I don’t believe the doctor or dentist has ever asked for it. Nor do they care if I have any guns in the house. Haven’t been asked anyway. Well, this is Texas.

 

[wheelgun1958]

Reading the alternate communication thread, I researched the gmrs license application (FCC) and it requires the SSN. Suppose I won't be applying for that anytime soon.

 

[welder]

No. I do not. I am aware that there are those who claim to furnish one with a few transcription errors though.

 

[Dan in MI]

Your SSN is far more secure with your healthcare provider than with any government agency ...... especially the VA.

I beg to differ. There have been multiple accounts of a medical provider going out of biz, retiring, etc, and all of their records were just tossed in trash for anyone to pick through.

 

[jimd441]

I'm also in the group that has never been asked for my ssn by any health care provider and can't imagine why any would need it.

Jim

 

[Colonialgirl]

Didn't the Armed Forces replace "Service ID Numbers" with the SS number sometime back ?
(Note: After My time !)

 

[blume357]

Interesting thing from a few years back.... good friend volunteered to teach English as a second language at our near by community college... it seems a good number of the folks taking this class spoke Spanish and were not legally documented.... she learned that through the black market one could by a Social Security number and depending on how much you paid was how good and 'secure' the number would be. When she told me this I thought about it and realized who had the ability to know how 'good' that number was? I will admit I am only speculating but for me there can only be one answer....

 

[powder smoke]

Your wife is correct.

She is not correct! NO ONE and I mean No One gets my social security number.
They need that like I need another hole in my head! An Employer is the only one who needs it! Period! ps

 

[MADDOG 521]

I don't give them my SS number and they can't copy my drivers license either. I will show them my license so they can verify it's me but they can't copy it. I don't let them run my license through their scanner at the polling place either. I show them my Passport.

 

[powder smoke]

Your SSN is far more secure with your healthcare provider than with any government agency ...... especially the VA.

How can you know that?????? Do you know my healthcare provider and who
works for them? Holy Cow if they work for health there cool no problem :shock: :roll: wow

 

[Glassfixer]

Thanks for the response everybody I feel better that I am not the only person that feels this way.
Just for your info I am at home with my two credit cards frozen due to being compramised. I don't know how they can end this, picture id. or private security number that is not on the card, I don't know but they are not charging us so they must be making money. You all have great day and hold on to your Rugers!

 

[hittman]

Your SSN is far more secure with your healthcare provider than with any government agency ...... especially the VA.

How can you know that?????? Do you know my healthcare provider and who
works for them? Holy Cow if they work for health there cool no problem :shock: :roll: wow

Statistics prove that. Nobody on earth has exposed more people to identity theft than federal and state governments. If your info is with the VA for example they've lost your data half a dozen times in recent years. Here in Illinois our unemployment department was hacked and hackers got virtually everything on everybody who has worked in Illinois in recent years.

Healthcare providers have to contend with HIPAA laws and such .... governments seem immune from civil and criminal damages to you.....healthcare providers......not so much.

 

[SamV]

My insurance company states that you never need to give your social security number to a health care provider. I haven’t done so in many years and no one seems to ask anymore these days. I did have a couple of arguments over this maybe 15 or more years ago, but not in recent years.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

MY SS number is not on my Drivers License or my Military ID. I just checked both and confirmed. At our Health care places they have gone to using DOB.

Pam SS number is not on the military ID front or back. Changed several years back.

 

[gramps]

Insurance companies, BCBS, used to base your ID on it. I kept refusing and they finally gave me a random number.
gramps

 

[K1500]

Local eye dr has folks put it on a sheet when they sign in, along with lots of other personal info (dob, address, name, etc). Then they put that paper on the counter in a stack with a bunch of others. You can read anyone’s info and even take a picture or grab the sheet. Not good.

 

[hittman]

Local eye dr has folks put it on a sheet when they sign in, along with lots of other personal info (dob, address, name, etc). Then they put that paper on the counter in a stack with a bunch of others. You can read anyone’s info and even take a picture or grab the sheet. Not good.

Not only "not good" it's flat out illegal.
He's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

 

[toysoldier]

Local eye dr has folks put it on a sheet when they sign in, along with lots of other personal info (dob, address, name, etc). Then they put that paper on the counter in a stack with a bunch of others. You can read anyone’s info and even take a picture or grab the sheet. Not good.

Not only "not good" it's flat out illegal.
He's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Hippa violation. The Feds could hit him hard.

 

[Jeepnik]

Didn't the Armed Forces replace "Service ID Numbers" with the SS number sometime back ?
(Note: After My time !)

Yep. My service number was my social but with a two letter prefix. In the USAF case FR. I assume other services had a different prefix. Though I think they have done away with the prefix as, supposedly, everyone has their own number from birth or when they become a tax payer.

 

[GLASSMAN]

What exactly can they do with your social security number?

I keep hoping 'they' will sell my number to some illegal alien who will use it to get a good paying job and the employer will then take out and pay income tax on it and then I'll get the rebate for paying too much.

 

[redhawker]

Just went to a new doctor yesterday. Amongst all the new patient forms they wanted both my and my wife's (emergency contact) SSN. I left both of those blank and they didn't say anything about them.