[dalereed]

Reading this i'm not sure what the final rules are.

I just want the ability to sign a form that says that any and all records pertaining to me shall be divulged to no one.

As far as i'm concerned, doctors shouldn't be able to keep medical records on me.

[Texasforever]

As far as i'm concerned, doctors shouldn't be able to keep medical records on me.

Simple, don't go to doctors.

[Jesse]

Bush didn't change, apparently, the most onerous provisions of these regulations, among which is unfettered access by the federal government to your private medical records, which must be surrendered on demand to the federal government. These changes are pablum, and designed to make you think Bush is actually doing something to restore your freedom and privacy to have confidential medical care and private medical records. He isn't. The federales can come in and demand your records from your doctor, and sell the information as well. That's what was in the original regs by Clinton.

Tommy Thompson is a moron, and Bush is a liar. But we knew that, didn't we, after this CFR debacle.

[JustTheTruth]

The fact is - and a fact that is not going to change in anybody's proposed rules - is that you do not own your medical records - those records legally belong to the doctor or hospital who created them. You have rights to copy or access them, but they are not "your" records. Like it or not, that is the way it is.