This important document produced by The Citizens' Council for Health Freedom and Twila Brase ...
22 HIPAA HARMS
details how HIPPA is not to protect privacy but to formalize how it can be intruded upon.
Example:
HIPAA is often described as a privacy rule. It is not. In fact, HIPAA is a disclosure regulation, and it has effectively dismantled the longstanding moral and legal tradition of patient confidentiality. Dr. Richard Sobel, Associate, Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
Twila Brase is President of The Citizens Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) - website:
https://www.cchfreedom.org with this mission statement:
Protect health care choices, individualized patient care and medical and genetic privacy rights.
If you listen to Christian radio, you have likely heard her daily 1 minute broadcasts detailing the fight against obamacare, expense, and other privacy issues regarding medical care. She runs another site that advocates for doctors who run practices outside the insurance realm -
https://www.cchfreedom.org .