Medical Privacy Deadline

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RE: ALERT: Medical Privacy DeadlineDear liberty activist,Liberty cannot exist without the right to privacy.What part of our lives deserve privacy more than our personal medicalhistory? Should federal, state, and local governmental agencies(including law enforcement) along with banks, insurance companies,HMOs, drug companies, marketing companies, researchers, foreigngovernmental agencies and others have access to your medical recordsWITHOUT your consent?Under the final medical privacy rule adopted by the Department of Healthand Human Services (H.H.S.) and published in the Federal Register onDecember 28, 2000, your consent will NOT be required for a variety ofpeople to read your personal medical history.Last year, during a seven-day period in February, over 12,000 of yousent comments to then-Secretary Donna Shalala objecting to theproposed federal medical privacy rule. Your efforts in February of2000 significantly helped delay the implementation of these so-calledmedical privacy regulations. On December 28, 2000, the federalprivacy rule was published in its final form. However, the newsecretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson is allowingone more opportunity for citizens to present comments to his department.Comments must follow strict guidelines on form and content. H.H.S.is not accepting comments by telephone or fax. To help you complywith these guidelines, we are providing a petition(http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/medprivacypetition.htm)that addresses the most serious flaws of the final, 367-page rule.Please sign the petition by 1:00 p.m. ET, Friday, March 30th and Iwill deliver your petition in person to Secretary Thompson's officebefore 5:00 p.m. that day.Every American needs to know what we know. Please help with thisnationwide, grassroots effort. Sign the petition athttp://www.thelibertycommittee.org/medprivacypetition.htm'>http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/medprivacypetition.htm and ask othersto do the same.If you need additional information about this issue, go to Institute forHealth Freedom athttp://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/Privacy/MedPrivFacts.html .We now have two opportunities to protect our medical privacy:1. passage of H. J. Res. 38 and 2. action that Secretary Thompson cantake.Please go to http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/medprivacypetition.htmnow.Kent SnyderThe Liberty Committeehttp://www.thelibertycommittee.org

 

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