Health Information Privacy, protected by law under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) explained at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website

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Among all the problems associated with the new government website designed to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), one of them could be that it is breaking the law under HIPAA privacy rights. This was revealed in Congressional hearings this week:

Representative Joe Barton (R-Texas), grilled the vice president of the technology company contracted to design the government website, Cheryl Campbell, regarding why code was hidden stating that users of the website Healthcare.gov have “no reasonable expectation of privacy.” In earlier testimony, Campbell had stated the website was “HIPAA compliant.”