Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: Obama: C-Span ban protects private health information | Washington Examiner: "News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher.
Today, the White House said President Obama's alleged failure to keep an oft-repeated campaign promise to televise high-level health care reform negotiations on C-Span was necessary to protect the 'private health information of the participants' under so-called HIPAA privacy rules.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 prevents unauthorized disclosure of patients' health information, according to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, 'and this reform debate has already had serious health consequences for several members of Congress.'
Indeed, Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., announced this week they would not seek re-election, after suffering painful bouts of voter discontent. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., tenaciously clings to political life after trading away his principled anti-abortion stance to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in exchange for his support of the reform legislation."
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