[Diana in Wisconsin]

“It’s not really a prohibition on asking, it’s a prohibition against sharing,” said Kayte Spector-Bagdady, an associate director at the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan. The law, she added, “doesn’t mean you never have to tell anyone about your health information.”

Your employer can ask whether you’ve received the coronavirus vaccine — and even require it

HIPAA has become one of the “most misunderstood statutes in existence,” said Glenn Cohen, a Harvard Law School professor who is an expert on health law and bioethics. “People think it does a lot more than it’s actually doing.”

[KC_Lion]

. “People think it does a lot more than it’s actually doing.”

That is Government in a nutshell.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

And, we’re off! Leftists changing the ‘meaning’ of anything they want, to get the results that they want!

Welcome to our Brave New World! *SPIT*

[KC_Lion]

So it appears that HIPAA, like most laws, when it really matters, it is practically worthless.

[Mom MD]

HIPAA has always only applied to health care entities and a few of their contractors in very specific circumstances. It prevents them from sharing your information from your medical record without your permission. It does not apply to anyone outside health care including your employer. It does. it prevent asking questions. You may share your information with anyone you wish

[cuban leaf]

No, it doesn’t ban questions about your vaccination status...

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They are deflecting the point. According to the first amendment, people can ask you anything they want. It has never been about people being allowed to ask. It’s been about you being compelled to answer. That is the question that everybody wants answered - do you have to answer when they ask?

[Texas Eagle]

Okay, fine. They may have the right to aks but I have the right to not answer.

Kind of like the cop who has the right to aks you questions but you have the right to not answer.

[AppyPappy]

Your health care provider cannot share your data. The company can ask for anything they want and can penalize you for not complying.

We make all students get vaxxed for Meningitis.

[bk1000]

It was damn sure a problem asking queers about AIDS. That’s how we got HIPAA in the first place.

[exnavy]

Some BS going on there, my info is personal and private, and will remain so. And i will use deadly force to protect my family from experimental drugs.

[a fool in paradise]

Why did Biden pressure dating/hookup apps to expose peoples’ VAX status while not encouraging self-identification of STD status?

[Magnatron]

”It’s not really a prohibition on asking, it’s a prohibition against sharing,” said Kayte Spector-Bagdady.

That’s a pretty big distinction…

[jacknhoo]

A prelude to the mark and anyone paying attention sees it.

It will be very difficult for people to subsist without the mark.

[CrappieLuck]

Asking is not the issue. The problem is why they are asking.

Employers compelling people to participate in experimental and unwanted medical procedures is the problem.

The consequences for not participating in the vaccine are the problem.

[DEPcom]

Simple answer No. I have health issues.

They are not allowed to ask any thing about the health issues due to HIPAA.

[kvanbrunt2]

And the vaccine isn’t a vaccine it is a gene therapy. And it doesn’t prevent the COVID-19/ 20/ 21 disease. or prevent someone from shedding the virus on everyone in the store.

[stanne]

As a health care pro let me say this about this Wapo headline I won’t read

HIPPA is for protection of privacy. Privacy is a right. To breach someone’s privacy the breached must have a need to know

[ScubaDiver]

I think people are expecting HIPAA to be an employment protection law rather than what it was designed to be; a legal enforcement mechanism aimed at health care providers in dealing with patient/doctor confidentially.

The reality is employers enjoy ENORMOUS asymmetrical power in the employer/employee relationship. They’re free to discriminate for any reason that isn’t expressly related to gender, sexual orientation (thanks Gorsuch), religion, race, national/ethnic origin and in some circumstances, age and disability (I believe that’s all the protected classes).

Beyond those limitations, they are free to use discriminatory practices in just about any other facet apparently including immunization status. It probably isn’t right, but that has nothing to do with HIPAA and everything to do with employment laws that favor employers.

[liberalh8ter]

Does an employer have the right to ask a prospective employee if they have HIV/AIDS? How about asking the prospect if they've ever had an abortion? You cannot ask a prospective employee their age but you can ask them if they've had a medical procedure? If memory serves me, the nearest you can get to that info is to ask if they have any issue that would preclude them from carrying out the duties attached to the position. Seems to me that there's some bending going on here.

[T Ruth]

Why the Washington Post Has No Credibility

[Macoozie]

We are non-binary-

Therefore, if asked, we can’t share the status of ourselves.

That would be non-consensual sharing of private health data.