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Yes. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, brought to you by Bubba Clinton.

To be fair, Bubba really didn't want anyone to know just how many STD one person could have.

It would cut off his circulation...

[cherry]

HIPPA was merely a roundabout way for insurance companies to gain your health information and then "share" it as necessarily...

it really has not much to do with protection of your "info"...

every social worker,case manager, Hospital chief of staff, medical record keepers, insurance company, Medicaid and medicare worker has free access....

now as a nurse, I am not allowed to even look at any info on a patient that is not on my list...