Bush has made it very clear that he is against "regulation". I assume that
things like stopping at red lights and driving on one side of the road will
be exempt from this prejudice (although they do cost the taxpayers an
enormous amount of money each year to enforce), but I wouldn't be surprised
at all if HIPPA as we have come to know it over the past few minutes will
not survive for long.
John
At 01:40 PM 12/21/00, you wrote:
>Just so you think that Politics are not an important part of this
>discussion:
>
>New Privacy Rules Are Challenged
>The New York Times, December 21, 2000
>By ROBERT PEAR
>
>WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 - Leaders of the health care industry said today
>that they would immediately ask President-elect George W. Bush to revise
>new
>rules issued by President Clinton to protect the privacy of medical
>records.
>
>.....
>
>Lawrence A. Ponemon, global leader of the privacy practice at
>PricewaterhouseCoopers, which advises hundreds of health care
>institutions, said: "Our clients in the health care industry need to be
>very
>alarmed. Most hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and insurance
>companies are
>light-years away from complying with these rules. They don't understand
>the magnitude of the rules."
