Right. So what you're saying is that people called and walked into hospitals, offered to bribe people to commit a federal and a state crime, and got nothing. I guess you think the Ohio government clerk who leaked Joe the Plumber's records didn't do anything wrong, either.
That is not giving out patient information to say Obama was in fact born here...
Uh huh. And I'm sure that would be a valid defense in court when the employee is hauled in for violating the law, or when HR fires you. Yeah.
When you phone a hospital you most certainly can ask to speak to a certain patient also. Has nothing to do with patient information.
You're right. But if you call a hospital and ask if a certain patient is there, they're not going to tell you.
Unless I had something to hide or my records were not there in the first place.
That's you. A lot of other people would be less comfortable with anyone off the street being able to look up all of their medical records.
Nowhere did I say it was okay to break federal laws but nice try. To say someone was a patient in a hospital is not a federal crime. If they gave out their medical records would be a crime. You are obfuscating.
HIPAA gives patients power to limit access to confidential information. Being hospitalized is not confidential. It is in every newspaper nationwide when someone has been hospitalized from a major illness or accident.
You're right. But if you call a hospital and ask if a certain patient is there, they're not going to tell you.
Especially since Obama and his thugs did not pull off the lie so the hospitals were virtually guarded against answering questions.
That's you. A lot of other people would be less comfortable with anyone off the street being able to look up all of their medical records.
Show us where anyone asked for all of Obama's or Ann's medical records?
Your comments on patient confidentiality may be true for the environment today, but I am willing to bet money that if you called a hospital back in 1961 to see if a patient was admitted there, they would cheerfully look it up and say “Yes sir, he was admitted on Wednesday and is in room 523.”
We didn’t always have HIPAA around.