Posted on 06/04/2021 5:48:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to relax safety measures for people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus and the country begins to reopen, many employers, businesses, families and friend groups are finding themselves in the at-times uncomfortable position of having to ask about others’ vaccination statuses.
Some Americans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), are balking at such questions and are claiming that asking about or requiring proof of vaccination is a violation of the HIPAA federal privacy law.
“Vax records, along with ALL medical records are private due to HIPPA rights,” Greene recently tweeted, misspelling the law’s acronym.
In the caption of an Instagram post that was flagged for containing false information, another person wrote, “If anyone asks for your vax status, tell them they have no right to know.”
That’s a common misconception but is “simply untrue,” said Robert Gatter, a professor with the Center for Health Law Studies at St. Louis University School of Law. Citing HIPAA as a reason to not disclose vaccination status is often a “knee-jerk reaction” that “quickly gets turned into a statement that sounds like law,” Gatter said. People sometimes say, “‘But I have a right not to be asked that question,’” he continued, “and it’s just not the case.”
Here’s what he and other experts say you need to know about the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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.”
That is Government in a nutshell.
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*
So it appears that HIPAA, like most laws, when it really matters, it is practically worthless.
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
No, it doesn’t ban questions about your vaccination status...
Yep. :(
Remind me what the meaning of, ‘is’ is? *SNORT*
Just remember: They may ask, but you don’t have to tell.
Just say ‘no’.
What will happen?
I ponder this every day. Given the labor shortage, will they really terminate my employment?
You may share your information with anyone you wish
Kind of like the cop who has the right to aks you questions but you have the right to not answer.
Of course you can refuse. But the right to refuse is not granted by HIPAA either.
Paving the way for Vaccine Passports to allow ‘We The People’ to freely travel.
Wonder if the illegals pouring in across our southern border are being issued those before they’re transported and released into the red parts of America? ;)
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.
It was damn sure a problem asking queers about AIDS. That’s how we got HIPAA in the first place.
OK, so people can lie. Can employers demand that health care providers confirm the data?
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.
Why did Biden pressure dating/hookup apps to expose peoples’ VAX status while not encouraging self-identification of STD status?
That’s a pretty big distinction…
“ We make all students get vaxxed for Meningitis.”
Straw man. That is a very deadly disease that affects children, and the vax is well tested, not some experimental BS authorized under “emergency powers “.
>>You may share your information with anyone you wish
My employer will terminate employees who compare salaries.
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