>Haw... how can these PIs find such long lost information as one’s mother’s perinatal medical treatment?
If that’s the case, then how could the government prove someone not only lied, but willfully did so on one of these forms?
To say otherwise is to presume guilt and place the onus not on the accuser but the accused.
>When that happened decades ago, if it happened at all, likely in the care of physicians now deceased who kept private records on paper and likely did not even involve insurance companies.
That only adds to the difficulty of the PROSECUTION thereof.
>This is another bureaucratic effup and once enough Congressbeasts learn about it, it will be dead.
I would hope; but given that people weren’t hanged for saying “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it” I doubt that this minor bureaucratic power-play will garner any attention.
I suppose a PI might be more skillful than your average FBI agent so you would be “safe” to say “no,” but who knows what got snarfed into an Obamacare computer system before it was shredded? And due to HIPAA it would be a royal pain at best to get the “confidential” information — even if you were the executor of that person’s estate — but for Uncle Sam it’s easy.