Explaining HIPAA: No, it doesn’t ban questions about your vaccination status

Washington COMpost ^ | June 4, 2020 | Allyson Chu

[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?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. :(

Remind me what the meaning of, ‘is’ is? *SNORT*

[beancounter13]

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?

[cuban leaf]

You may share your information with anyone you wish

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Or refuse to.

[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.

[Mom MD]

Of course you can refuse. But the right to refuse is not granted by HIPAA either.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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? ;)

[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.

[PapaBear3625]

Of course you can refuse. But the right to refuse is not granted by HIPAA either.

OK, so people can lie. Can employers demand that health care providers confirm the data?

[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…

[bk1000]

“ 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 “.

[a fool in paradise]

>>You may share your information with anyone you wish

My employer will terminate employees who compare salaries.