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Statement and Speeches
Medical Privacy Home Health records contain highly personal information. Yet under current federal law, we have little control over our medical records. Our records can be bought and sold for commercial gain, disclosed to employers, and used to deny individuals insurance. This invades our reasonable expectations of privacy and even causes some people to withhold important health information from their health care providers. To protect the privacy of our medical records, Rep. Waxman worked with several other members of Congress to introduce the Health Information Privacy Act of 1999. Please review his Dear Colleague letter and statement on the issue as well as a summary of the bill and the bill itself. Additionally, in April 2000, Rep. Waxman released a report by the Special Investigations Division of the Government Reform Committee that evaluates whether major employers have medical privacy policies that comply with the recommendations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other privacy experts. The report found that many companies have failed to implement sound privacy policies. Report
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