The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, aka HIPPA, has regularly failed to keep private personal medical records from public scrutiny – or so says a story published in the Des Moines Register.  In one case, a local newspaper released a story, at the urging of a medical services firm and its public relations team, which included a patient’s full name and detailed descriptions of her medical conditions.  However, since HIPPA was enacted in 2003, almost no charges have been brought under its guidelines.  So what’s the use?

This is the same government that wants to run a medical health insurance program.

Physician, heal thyself.