[Med-privacy] testimony/end of med. privacy?

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:33:46 -0700

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<p align=3D"left"><a href=3D"http://www.healthprivacy.org/usr_doc/48751.p=
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"Making Patient Privacy               a Reality:<br>
Does the Final HHS Regulation Get the Job Done?=E2=80=9D to the Senate   =
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Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) on Feburary
 8, 2001.<br>
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<p align=3D"left"><b><a href=3D"http://www.cato.org/dailys/02-01-03.html"=
>Prying
Eyes:               The End of Medical Privacy</a></b> by Charlotte
Twight, Cato Institute,               February 1, 2003<br>
The assault on our medical privacy is accelerating. In August 2002,  =20
the executive branch weakened the federal government's already flawed=20
medical privacy regulations. In June 2002, a U.S. district court     =20
judge dismissed a well-founded constitutional challenge to the medical
 privacy rules. Finally, leaving little doubt about its endgame,      =20
the federal government revealed in fall 2002 that its planned "Total =20
Information Awareness" program is targeting, among other things,     =20
medical information about all of us. </p>
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