Medical/legal pedes, have the protections of HIPAA been suspended for the scamdemic response? It was my understanding that it is illegal to even ask someone about their personal medical information.
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You are right. But you MISS a very important point. HIPPA was written under the assumption that you never had to give your personal private medical information to anyone, ever, without probable cause. The 4th amendment if you remember it. The function of HIPPA was that if you did entrust someone with this information you could be assured that you had legal protections. HIPPA or not, I don't have to give anyone, anything, concerning my private records. Now IF my employer was HIPPA compliant I may, or may not, choose to entrust them with this information.
You have not read HIPAA. Because you have not read it, you are making assumptions based on what other people say and/or what you hope it says, but not on what it actually says.
I encourage you to read it, so you will KNOW what it says (and why your statement is not correct).
I suggest you read the 4th amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. Whatever you think is, or is not, in HIPPA, I guarantee you. It does not over ride our God given rights.
Correct, but HIPAA is a SPECIFIC provision that ONLY applies to SPECIFIC situations.
You still have not READ it.
Why not?
Because I don't need to read it. I have 4th Amendment protections. That's why. It's not up for debate. It's simply how it is. Scream and stamp and feet about HIPAA all day long. It will NEVER take away my God given rights. People are using it as a straw man argument to confuse people with legal mumbo jumbo. The 4th Amendment is very easy to understand. Why people want to make the issue more complicated than what it is makes no sense to me.
I didn’t miss that point. It just doesn’t really matter because the spirit of the law isn’t going to prevent anyone from doing anything, especially not private companies.
I’m just saying that if you’re looking to fight your employer or a business or whatever on demanding your vaccination status, bringing up HIPAA is going to be a losing argument.
No, it's not. If I say I do not want to give my employer my medical records because they are not HIPPA compliant that is 100% accurate. It's a legal argument because the 4th Amendment says it is. It is 100% legally my right if I don't want to take that risk.
I think standing on the 4th to keep your information private is valid.
In my reading, HIPAA will also keeps your information private once your employer has it. If they use the information to single you out, e.g., demand you submit to the jab, they have violated the letter of the law.