GP comment is being deadly serious and not at all cynical or sarcastic. HIPAA is a fig leaf. Cardboard covers on clipboards to inconvenience the nurses and re

GP comment is being deadly serious and not at all cynical or sarcastic. HIPAA is a fig leaf. Cardboard covers on clipboards to inconvenience the nurses and receptionists, but a unencumbered infobahn for anyone who touches the money to drive straight through. For decades, every visit, test, procedure, and medication you've ever had paid for by a health insurer in the US got dumped straight into MIB, where any insurer could look at it. HIPAA functionally changed this not a whit.