While I know HIPAA from the medical confidentiality end, I am not a lawyer. From what I know, they would risk a HIPAA violation to release information that came to them from treating a patient. If he sent a letter, I’m not sure if that would be a HIPAA violation or not - perhaps a freeper lawyer could comment?
You don’t have to be a lawyer to exercise common sense. What you’re saying makes NO sense. You’re saying that at an official Kapiolani event, at the official Kapiolani microphone, an approved speaker could affirm—with cameras rolling, to preserve his remarks for Youtube posterity—that Obama was born at Kapiolani, BUT that it is a major crime for Kapiolani to subsequently affirm that this happened.
Look, no fines or other penalties accrued to the official announcement. So why would a simple affirmation of that announcement be a major crime/sin?
To repeat: what you’re saying makes no sense. And anybody who can’t smell a rat in all this obfuscation has serious, serious problems.