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HIPAA isn't helping us.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

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| December 01, 2003 | Sloan, Don | COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In "Pro & Con: Is HIPAA helping in any way?" Both Dr. Richard Sacks-Wilner and Dr. David Kibbe seemed to skirt the real issues. They made certain rather blatant points, but then missed the forest for the trees (Oct. 1,2003, p. 7).

The Health Insurance Portablility and Accountability Act is just a part of the big picture: the shameful and dubious fact that the United States, the planet's wealthiest nation, is the only industrialized one without a health care plan for its people. From all the rubble of the Clintons" 1992 campaign rhetoric and what has followed with Bush II, our answer has been an HMO machine driven by the insurance/banking cabal that has left over 40 million Americans without any care. ...

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