If anyone seeks your healthcare information, under HIPAA and other laws, they have to disclose several pieces of information to you as part of the request for information, and they have to provide a healthcare information privacy notice.

Can you cite the section of HIPAA that says employers must do that?

Your employer is almost certainly a "covered entity" with regards to HIPAA, as a "business associate" of their insurance company.

Since the employer is "out of the loop" when it comes to a health care provider billing an insurance company, I would say your statement is wrong.

Again, can you cite the specific clause of the HIPAA statute that supports your claim? It has been a couple of years since I read it, and I don't remember anything having to do with employers, in general. But maybe you can show me that I am wrong.

Where most employers are going to get mixed up is in liability for illness in the workplace. If they are taking responsibility for one disease, they are probably exposing themselves to liability to all

Intersting angle, and this would have nothing to do with HIPAA.

Would be interesting if someone takes the "jab" due to coersion by employer, dies, and then employer (but not drug maker) gets sued.

Would be VERY interesting case -- and I would not be surprised if it happens. Have no idea how any particular judge or jury would rule on that, though.