And again dems wring their hands and whine while the GOP violates HIPAA and destroys families
Sure would be nice IF THERE WAS A FUCKING ADULT ANYWHERE IN GOVERNMENT RIGHT NOW
I’m not in health care so I’m not really familiar with HIPAA but I thought it just protected against health care companies and not the government? Although I must say, it never occurred to me that they would do something like this
My understanding has always been that doctors shouldn't share peoples private health information with law enforcement either...
Like if the cops suspect you of a crime or planning a crime, they can't just go to your therapist and ask them what you talk about in your sessions...
I have no expertise but that has always been something I thought was protected. Maybe it's changed if it's demographic and personal experience rather than medical...? I have no idea
Stop pretending like MAGA is playing by the rules everyone. Ice agents are terrorists and shouldn't be given the respect of your cognition for a civil society that protects itself from tyrants. Your health information is your own fucking business and a trespass on that should be treated with the horror and aggression it deserves.
My reservation is due to not having the legal expertise to substantiate that it is legally in the wrong, when I believe it to be morally in the wrong.
I'm literally on medicaid, I'm not happy that ICE was handed my private information. Fortunately for me, I'm white.
What a time to be alive 😶
People here illegally aren't on Medicaid.
that’s the point. they pull the rug, then when you are in the lobby of your doctor office they kidnap you and send you to the death camps. you “became illegal” when they pulled the rug from under your feet. they just didn’t tell you.
However, even the existence of such an agreement could deter people from seeking needed medical care
I'm sure that's an intended part of it.
The original sin was storing things like "ethnicity" in the database at all. What does ethmicity have to do with health?
a lot, lol. minority groups often have different medical needs than the majority, and ignoring those differences leads to worse outcomes for them. from a research perspective especially it's critically important.
Any sources? Your faux academic condolescence and "intersectionalist" babble alone won't do.
yeah i'm the one who's babbling lol. you couldn't bother googling 'racial disparities in health'?
Racial disparities in health is tracking the social issues from racism both how it effects patients views on themselves and their care providers view of them.
The actual mapping of phenotype and hereditary to health based on it is not. It's a step above astrology as medicine, but still mostly bullshit pseudoscience that was wrong 200 years ago and has only gotten less scientific.
did you know that black people have a higher risk of being anemic
So have women. I haven't heard of higher death rates in regions (known as "the civilized world") )that do not differ their patients by "race".
You're stupid ass moron. That's all the "source" needed.
There are reasons to store race/ethnicity. One that is relevant to almost any scenarios is tracking discrimination.
Yes. Dr. Mengele and Alfred Rosenberg dedicated their live's work to these ideas.
Honestly, and people will argue in this thread that "actually there are some trends". No, not really. Race as always is a shit ass way to categorize people. Income has a tighter correlation for most things. What about genetics conditions they ask? Track fucking genotypes then. What about phenotypical conditions like melatonin correlation to sun burns? Again, that singular fucking attribute does a better job as measure the thing that fucking matters!
What doesn't do that is the social construct based on the most visable phenotypes associated with a region in the world over 200 hundred fucking years ago!!
This won't stop with migrants. I'm in that database with a long record of treatment for ADHD and a shorter record of treatment for autism. RFK is gonna send me to camp to learn how to concentrate sooner or later.
I've been saying this forever....
HIPAA Data is protected and private, until someone with power decides it isn't.
Never trust your data to anyone
...but I have nothing to hide.
I'm so tired of hearing this and when you bring up that a Jewish person did not feel that they needed to hide their religion in 1933, they'll say, ""that's different."
In germany we call it Datenschutz.
And there are plans for it to be violated in the exact same way here in Germany :(
is it because you schutz the daten
Cunts
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