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HIPAA is ok with this?
I’ll go ahead and put one vote in for the privacy violations doing more damage than any public health benefits that would be gained
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HIPAA has a permitted uses and disclosures and there is one for public interest and benefits, which includes communicable diseases. It also states that it exempts a whole lot of groups from privacy enforcement. Furthermore, you’d be surprised to learn that they can summarize a person’s health care for employers so that they can obtain bids from all sorts health insurance providers prior to the enrollment process.
We really need to separate healthcare from employment.
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We really need a decent human being in the white house
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