Can there be any possible excuse for this latest (proposed) act of betrayal?

a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3022434/Private-companies-could-get-access-to-millions-of-NHS-medical-records.html?source=EMC-new_21092008" rel="nofollow"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi…/a Private companies will have access to our health records under the proposed scheme unless we opt out under the Data Protection Act.