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The New Medical Privacy Regulations: Will They Protect Our Most Personal Information?

POLICY FORUM
Thursday, February 15, 2001
12:00 p.m.

Featuring Ronald Weich, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP; Sue Blevins, Institute for Health Freedom; and Tom Miller, Cato Institute.

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As one of its last acts the Clinton administration finalized new rules meant to protect the confidentiality of patients' medical records. Will those rules keep that information safe from prying eyes or will they make access by government bureaucrats and law enforcement officials without the patients' consent even easier?

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