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health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996 (hipaa)
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) allows persons to qualify immediately for comparable health insurance coverage when they change their employment or relationships. It also creates the authority to mandate the use of standards for the electronic exchange of health care data; to specify what medical and administrative code sets should be used within those standards; to require the use of national identification systems for health care patients, providers, payers (or plans), and employers (or sponsors); and to specify the types of measures required to protect the security and privacy of personally identifiable health care.
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Harold Pollack: health coverage for ex-prisoners: a quiet but important benefit of health reform
"If I'm trying to sell health reform, the smiling waitress with two kids, the laid-off steel worker, and the 7th grader with cancer work better on the campaign posters. Yet for many reasons – some obvious, some not – the health and well-being of ex-prisoners has a disproportionate impact on us all." More...
In sickness and in health
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Maggie Mahar: Republican budget plan could deliver crushing blow to Medicare
Robert Greenstein, President of the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities (CBPP) dubbed Ryan's proposal "Robin Hood in reverse – on steroids. It could likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history." More...