Penalties (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-23 21:32 (#28F) Any breach yields immediate loss of medical licenses and mandatory fines, no trial or arbitration.Clean and simple. Anything less, such as the current tremendously vague HIPAA regulations and corresponding lack of enforcement, means nothing but business as usual as "privacy" becomes a distant memory. HIPPA is too much **and** too little (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-26 02:49 (#299) HIPPA blocks access by people who should have it, and it allows access by those who shouldn't.I don't want my insurer to have any details, and I certainly don't want their "contractors" and "authorized agents" to have any info at all.Pretty much any doctor will have you waive your rights anyway. No waiver means no service. This shouldn't be possible.On the other hand, some things need to be made known. Medical bills need to be made available to anybody you have financial entanglements with. This includes all people with whom you might share a budget in the recent past or future. Contageos (WTF spelling...) diseases should require notification of any and all who might have received or supplied the disease. People living in the same house, or intending to do so (marriage license) ought to get everything, without exception.
HIPPA is too much **and** too little (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-26 02:49 (#299) HIPPA blocks access by people who should have it, and it allows access by those who shouldn't.I don't want my insurer to have any details, and I certainly don't want their "contractors" and "authorized agents" to have any info at all.Pretty much any doctor will have you waive your rights anyway. No waiver means no service. This shouldn't be possible.On the other hand, some things need to be made known. Medical bills need to be made available to anybody you have financial entanglements with. This includes all people with whom you might share a budget in the recent past or future. Contageos (WTF spelling...) diseases should require notification of any and all who might have received or supplied the disease. People living in the same house, or intending to do so (marriage license) ought to get everything, without exception.