Originally Posted by aklim

Bottom line is you are just ranting about nothing. 2 hardly significant incidences do not indicate that something works or doesn't work. In fact, that it comes to light and there is some action being taken means it does work. Of course, as we can see in your rant, it doesn't work the way YOU want it to. IOW, if it doesn't work 100% it doesn't work. What is the percentage of really serious transgressions? IOW, what percentage results in something really bad happening. For instance, how many leaks of information result in a person being denied insurance or a job or breaks up a marriage?

Personally, I would rather scrap HIPPA and MIPPA altogether but to say that the system isn't working is a little bit of a stretch at this time. HIPPA is a very recent thing.