How is this not a HIPAA violation?
The state has access to medical records??
Because HIPAA has an exception for law enforcement activities?
I'm just spit-ballin' here.
The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for individually identifiable health information held by covered entities and their business associates and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information.
The Privacy Rule, as well as all the Administrative Simplification rules, apply to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and to any health care provider who transmits health information in electronic form in connection with transactions for which the Secretary of HHS has adopted standards under HIPAA (the “covered entities”).
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/disclosures-for-law-enforcement-purposesWill this HIPAA Privacy Rule make it easier for police and law enforcement agencies to get my medical information?
Answer:
No. The Rule does not expand current law enforcement access to individually identifiable health information. In fact, it limits access to a greater degree than currently exists, since the Rule establishes new procedures and safeguards that restrict the circumstances under which a covered entity may give such information to law enforcement officers.
How is this not a HIPAA violation?
The state has access to medical records??
Just a basic question from a guy who never used any drugs beyond those prescribed by a physician for surgery pain relief or over the counter meds. Do you really want a person who is high on grass to be packing?
I seem to recall that an individual high on Mary Jane crashed a train a few years back. I seem to recall that regular users tend to be a bit irrational at times. I think that anyone who uses it cannot receive a CDL, so there are concerns about them driving safely. I also recall that use of this substance has been compared to the use of alcohol, which is extremely deadly when used while driving, as we all know. I also know that we all agree one should not be drinking while at the firing range, or carrying at the local road house when one is three sails to the wind.
So do we really object to taking guns away from a person who regularly sits down on the porch and watches the pink elephants dancing on the lawn? Do we really want this man holding an AR-15 with a thirty-round mag when the elephants come up on the porch after him, or they turn into the boogey man emerging from the ground?
Just a basic question from a guy who never used any drugs beyond those prescribed by a physician for surgery pain relief or over the counter meds. Do you really want a person who is high on grass to be packing?
I seem to recall that an individual high on Mary Jane crashed a train a few years back. I seem to recall that regular users tend to be a bit irrational at times. I think that anyone who uses it cannot receive a CDL, so there are concerns about them driving safely. I also recall that use of this substance has been compared to the use of alcohol, which is extremely deadly when used while driving, as we all know. I also know that we all agree one should not be drinking while at the firing range, or carrying at the local road house when one is three sails to the wind.
So do we really object to taking guns away from a person who regularly sits down on the porch and watches the pink elephants dancing on the lawn? Do we really want this man holding an AR-15 with a thirty-round mag when the elephants come up on the porch after him, or they turn into the boogey man emerging from the ground?
Imagine someone carries a gun or drives a car while high......
You mean like people driving drunk, or carrying a gun drunk?
Then I guess we should ban alcohol.
No need to ban it, just ban anyone who uses it from owning a gun. Oh, and by "uses it" I mean "is legally qualified to buy it" since apparently they're the same thing.
It's all about public safety right ?So, anyone that uses alcohol (or is legally qualified to buy it) can't own a gun.
Careful. Heads will spin.
If MJ should be legal or not aside, I'm surprised people are surprised by this. MJ is illegal federally. Alcohol is not. The 4473 specifically mentions marijuana. Alcohol isn't mentioned. So putting aside the "how I'd like it to be" and dealing with "how it actually is"...people who signed up for something that's a known disqualifier are now disqualified....
List of people who saw this coming:
Helen Keller
Ray Charles
Doc Watson
Stevie Wonder
other famous blind people, you get the idea.
Seems easy?Kind of easy here, if you like guns, don’t get a medical maryjane card. If you like maryjane, don’t get a medical maryjane card, and get your maryjane the same way you used to. If you like both guns, and maryjane, don’t get your maryjane card until it isn’t against federal law.?
That would seem an odd thing for Congress to do, make alcohol an illegal substance, I mean. MJ is on the list because its in a law. Don't like the law, get the law changed. We can all do thought exercises. This is reality and the law is what it is until it is changed.
As for alcohol, we tried that. Didn't work real well. In any event, playing along, more guns for me.