FWD: Administrative simplification in the health reform bill (fwd)

[James Love <love@tap.org>]

Good news, it seems, with regard to the administrative simplification 
issue.  I don't know exactly what happened (and I'm leaving for a few 
weeks), but this note from Senator Simon's staff sounds encouraging.   
jamie

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Subject: Administrative simplification in the health reform bill
Author:  Judy Wagner at Simon-DC
Date:    8/1/96 12:06 PM


          Thanks to Anne Marie catching the problem when the rest of 
          the world was determined to ignore it -- and Paul being 
          willing to make it an issue in discussion with other 
          Senators -- the bill will NOT permit the establishment of 
          huge data banks of our private personal health records 
          without any privacy safeguards or penalties for misuse of 
          information.
     
          It won't show up in press reports, but this is a significant 
          victory.
***** NOTES from Lucinda Sikes (LSIKES@CITIZEN) at 8/1/96 4:05p
Anne Marie is a Simon staffer.  Congratulations!