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Deadly Privacy

Julian Sanchez | 8.19.2003 12:41 PM

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WaPo says that confusion over the requirements of the federal medical privacy law HIPAA has made hospitals highly risk-averse, leading to cases in which the inability to obtain medical information has put patients at risk. Cato devoted an issue of the Cato Journal to HIPAA last year.

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Julian Sanchez is a contributing editor at Reason.

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