HIPPA doesn’t prevent a business from asking you anything about your health. They can ask and you can not answer. This establishment isn’t a medical provider or insurance provider that are bound to HIPPA regulations. Your neighbor can ask you. They can even talk about your medical conditions behind your back to your other neighbors.
Technically correct, but if the customer is not required to answer, there's no way for the business to enforce the mandate because they can't investigate and validate medical exemptions - and it is not legal to refuse to serve (discriminate against) someone with a medical condition under the ADA.
The restaurant may have misstated some element of minutiae, but they got the core conclusion correct. The mandate is unenforceable, and it's damn sure not the restaurant's job to do the enforcing.
HIPPA doesn’t prevent a business from asking you anything about your health. They can ask and you can not answer. This establishment isn’t a medical provider or insurance provider that are bound to HIPPA regulations. Your neighbor can ask you. They can even talk about your medical conditions behind your back to your other neighbors.
I REALLY wish we would stop getting that wrong.
Fuck is it embarrassing.
It's not really embarrassing, it's an understandable misconception.
Every comment you make on this site you're attempting to portray yourself as one of "us" before scolding "us".
You're not one of us.
That's a lot like the dick headed grammer police.
HIPAA NOT HIPPA.
Fukn embarrasing.
Technically correct, but if the customer is not required to answer, there's no way for the business to enforce the mandate because they can't investigate and validate medical exemptions - and it is not legal to refuse to serve (discriminate against) someone with a medical condition under the ADA.
The restaurant may have misstated some element of minutiae, but they got the core conclusion correct. The mandate is unenforceable, and it's damn sure not the restaurant's job to do the enforcing.
If you are going to get all technical, it's HIPAA, not HIPPA.
Hungry Hungry Hippas