Talk:Consumer protection/Archives/2020

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

The article says the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act provides consumer protections. I've read the relevant sections of The Act and it is a license to give patient information away. The best I can tell, the Act appears to have codified existing industry practices; and not place controls to promote patient rights or privacy. I refuse to sign anything related to HIPPA when I visit a doctor. The Act is that bad.

With that said, I think it is disingenuous to claim HIPPA is a vehicle for consumer protection.

Jeffrey Walton (talk) 00:26, 30 May 2020 (UTC)