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Anti-trans Missouri A.G. can now access trans people’s medical records
(newrepublic.com)
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isn't this like, explicitly anti HIPPA (or HIPAA since apparently medical acronyms suck)?
Shouldn't this be like, INCREDIBLY illegal?
Not like the Christians care but it also violates the fourth
ah yes, a classic, the fourth, i mean the forced amendment.
Silly commie. The 4th amendment is like the 3rd, 7th, and 8th. They’re all outdated silly things that are completely irrelevant to our modern world unlike the 2nd and certain interpretations of the 1st
The ruling specifically said items that aren't protected under federal mandate. When I deal with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) information, just about everything you can imagine in the record is protected if it can be paired with another piece of info and narrow down a person's identity. Scroll down to the 'Protected Health Information'
Hopefully that means they can deny just about every document... but I have no hope when it comes to courts and prosecutors in the states.
yeah no this definitely seems illegal then. There's no way asking for medical documents of trans people isn't going to reveal personal information about them, unless you're looking for fucking statistics?
Given those are the only documents this ruling entitles the AG to, it sounds like statistics are all he’s gonna get.
what a funny time to live in huh
HIPAA
No, they're referring to the Health Insurance Portability and Paccountability Act.
the p in hippa stands for accountability
I thought they were talking about that hungra, hungra animal from Africa.
Go sit in in a personal injury trial and see how worthless HIPPA actually is.
hipaa is one of the things of all time, that's definitely for sure.
But there are also things it's supposed to be doing, so.