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Chilling News About Health Privacy -
You Have None.
Is there anything in your health record that you would not want to share with others? Prescriptions for anti-depressants, anxiety, cancer, long-ago abortions, AIDS or HIV, testing for the Alzheimer gene, your child’s Autism or ADD, sexual impotency prescriptions, hospital admissions, or anything else?
You assume your most personal health information is private, right? It’s not.
Like most Americans, you probably believe:
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What you tell your doctor is totally private
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If you sign “privacy notices” at a doctor’s office, a pharmacy, a hospital or a lab, you health records will not be used or disclosed without your permission
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No one can look at your sensitive health records, prescriptions or tests without your permission
NONE of these assumptions are true. Your right to decide who can see and use your sensitive, personal health information was eliminated in 2003. See how.
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