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To: scott7278
Although the decision to engage in premarital sex while employed by a Christian school was unwise (as I believe all premarital sex to be), the school had no right under existing HIPAA law to ask the question regarding the pregnancy. They can’t even ask that of a person when being hired.

As someone pointed out earlier, schools don't fall under HIPAA. Doctors, health insurance companies, hospitals, etc all fall under that law, but the only thing a private entity deals with that would fall under that is your insurance information. There may be other claims, though it appears that she tried to assert those other claims already and lost.

178 posted on 06/09/2010 11:11:41 AM PDT by CA Conservative
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To: CA Conservative

I guarantee you that’s not true. Any entity that has collected any personally-identifiable, confidential health information is bound to hold it in confidence. You know those insurance forms that you filled out and gave to your employer that are now sitting in a file somewhere? They cannot distribute it, nor use any of it against you.

The ultimate user of the information is the insurance company, but everyone in the trail is held to the same standard.

It is against the law for any employer to discriminate against a pregnant person - it’s against the law to ask an applicant, and it’s against the law to take action against an employee when it comes to pregnancy.


199 posted on 06/09/2010 11:22:54 AM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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