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| Medical Privacy Rights Lawsuit Needs Support | |
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| The Foundation for
Health Choice and its President Dr. Tedd Koren along with Citizens for
Health and more than a dozen other groups and scores of individuals have
sued the government challenging privacy rules It's a classic case of the government creating two (or more) problems for every one it tries to solve. As a result of federal privacy rules enacted in April 2003 we now have a citizenry that is more hassled, more at the mercy of government regulation enforcers and with even less personal protection of their health records. As we know chiropractors, medical doctors, healthcare workers and others are no longer able to work together in the privacy of health care confidentiality and everything in the patients records could be made available to government and corporate bureaucrats. People thought their health information was more protected in April, but a Byzantine entanglement of regulations under the Bush administration have changed that. New government privacy rules actually make it easier for personal health records to be a mouse-click away from people who work for hospitals, insurers, government agencies and other places; you may never know they have your information or what they plan to do with it. In Federal Court on Wednesday December 9th, 2003 in Philadelphia before U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin we will present our concerns over potential threats to medical privacy. The suit asks for something very simple: a requirement that health care providers obtain patients' consent before sharing data. (Article continues at top of next column on right)
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Though the lawsuit
filed by the Foundation for Health Choice, Citizens for Health and their
allies is a vital first assault on the so-called Privacy Rule,
legislators have also launched their own attack. The bi-partisan STOHP
Act (HR 1709), introduced by Rep. Edward Markey (DMA-7), will restore
key privacy protections that the August 2002 modifications stripped from
citizens. Rep. Ron Paul (RTX-14) has introduced the "Patient Privacy
Act" (HR 1699), which repeals not just the August 2002 modifications but
the whole misnamed Privacy Rule. Interested parties should contact their Congressmen, Senators and the Foundation for Health Choice www.foundationforhealthchoice.com to register their opposition to the stealing of an American birthright. previous press release previous feature
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