[Med-privacy] Re: [Politech] Texas atty general sides with open government over privacy [priv]

[Jim Warren]

At 10:39 PM -0800 2/29/04, Jeff Williams wrote:
>Declan and all,
>
>   The subject line of this post does not accurately reflect the actual
>statements in the article.  Medical privacy [HIPAA] is strongly supported
>by the vast majority of my fellow Texans.

I have NO doubt that the vast majority of Texans (and non-Texans!) DO 
strongly support maximum medical privacy!

However, neither my original subject-line, that Declan included 
below, not Declan's own subject-line above, say ANYthing about most 
Texans!  There is only ONE Texan mentioned in either subject-line -- 
the "Texas atty general"!


>   I would say that the subject line is very misleading an therefore
>inaccurate

No, both subject-lines are COMPLETELY accurate!  There ARE many 
opportunities to point out significant media inaccuracy or bias (Fox 
News and the Washington Times come to mind <grin>) -- but this ain't 
one of 'em.  In THIS case, the only misrepresentation is the 
implication that the subject line(s) reference any more than one, 
single [powerful!] Texan.  ;-)

--jim


>as well a borne of media folks not getting personal
>and private information when and how they want it.  Well too bad
>for them.
>
>
>Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>>  -------- Original Message --------
>>  Subject: Texas Atty Genl "rejects" strong federal medical-privacy law
>>  Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:03:47 -0800
>>  From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
>>  To: Dave Farber:;, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>>  References: <40424C37.2D1643AF@comcast.net>
>>
>>  An interesting clash between (1) open-government vs.
>>  personal-privacy, and (2) state's rights vs. federal authority.  --jim
>>
>>  At 12:34 PM -0800 2/29/04, pmarshall <pwm@comcast.net> posted to
>>  med-privacy@venice.essential.org:
>>
>>  >TEXAS AG SAYS NO TO HIPAA: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ruled
>>  >Friday that the state's public information law takes
>  > >precedence over a far-reaching federal medical privacy law, a legal
>  > ...
>Regards,
>
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