Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership: President Obama’s Executive Action Violates HIPPA

By Robert Farago

By Robert B. Young, MD (reprinted with permission from Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership)

President Obama is now using executive actions to fill in certain “gun safety” gaps in our present hodgepodge of laws and regulations. One might wonder whether he is motivated not only by the possibility of “saving just one life” but also by the fact that most of the nation disagrees with him about the need for further gun control and about his right to rule by fiat . . .

DRGO works hard to cover the often discouraging intersection of health care and gun rights. This effort required watching in word-for-word, tear stained, excruciating detail the January 5 White House press conference and CNN’s January 7 Guns in America town hall from George Mason University.

It meant reading the President’s January 7 opinion piece in the New York Times, “Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility” and all 56 pages of the federal Department of Health and Human Services Final Rule 45 CFR Part 164, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), published January 6. We shoulder these unpleasant tasks so …Read the Rest

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