Government
Feb. 19, 2009
Stimulus Plan Protects Health Care Privacy
As Congress works to draft an economic stimulus plan that could cost more than $700 billion, senators on the Judiciary Committee are angling for a slice of that very big pie to fund state and local law enforcement.
Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - A program in the $787 billion stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama Tuesday not only creates a much-touted nationwide electronic health care database but also includes new legal safeguards, both civil and criminal, to protect those records. The privacy provision in the $20 billion health care program allows state attorneys general to file civil lawsuits for violations of the fed...
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