[lit-ideas] CONGRESS SET TO OVERRIDE STATE MEDICAL-PRIVACY RIGHTS
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:14:27 EDT
What exactly happened to that HIPPA crap that made billing Medicare and
Medicaid so much more complicated?
Julie Krueger
<<CONGRESS SET TO OVERRIDE STATE MEDICAL-PRIVACY RIGHTS
On May 24, the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on
Health voted 8-5 to approve a bill (H.R. 4157) that will
likely be used to override your state medical-privacy
rights. The legislation empowers unelected bureaucrats from
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to
decide how much or how little privacy you can have. If HHS
decides to override your state medical-privacy rights, no
state law or state lawmaker will be able to protect you from
the politics of the Washington D.C. beltway and the
lobbyists of health plans, government, and data corporations
who want your private data at no cost and at their own
discretion.
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