“Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?”

Yes, the government is forcing doctors to ask every patient the above, or else face penalties from Medicare and Medicaid.

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.

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.

For the meddlesome busybody class, this stuff is an absolute dream come true.

And (as I have been screaming about for some time), none of the data will be confidential:

Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist and associate professor at Albert Einstein Medical College, explains that your medical record should be “a story created by you and your doctor solely for your treatment and benefit.” But the new requirements are turning it “into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential.”

Any doctor who cooperates with this outrage has violated his oath as a physician, and IMO, is unworthy to practice medicine. And the members of Congress who voted for it are unworthy to hold office.

As to what will happen to recalcitrant patients who refuse to answer, who knows?

They are turning our doctors into our enemies.