HIPAA was enacted 25 years ago. Today it's wrongly being used to justify keeping COVID status secret.

, who cited the law as an excuse to not say whether they've had COVID-19 or are vaccinated.

Back in 1995, nobody was worried about pandemics but everybody was worried about something called "job lock." President Clinton signs the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1996 on the South Lawn of the White House. Looking on, from left are, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Rep. Harris Fawell, R-Ill., Kristin Hopper, 6, of Falls Church, Va., Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Sen. John Breaux, D-La., Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, Health Secretary Donna Shalala, and Merit Kimball, a cancer patient from Silver Spring, Md.

The privacy provisions said an insurance company, doctor or pharmacy could only use medical information about a patient to treat that patient. They couldn't sell it to someone else or use it for marketing.

So much for Sarbanes Oxley!

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