Reddit reviews Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
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OK, given enough time and motivation, you can narrow down stuff. Overly sensationalistic story. And hardly breaking news. Glance over Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (2001)
HIPAA is a joke... it's primarily used to tack on extra charges for identity crooks operating out of health care settings. It's been, what, +5 years now? Go take a look at the case law and see what great changes HIPAA accomplished.
The reality is that, under the guise of billing, your health care information is spread far and wide. Once you step foot inside a hospital, there are so many vectors for your information to travel, it's not even funny. From radiology, the the pharmacy, to the lab, to your doctor's notes to the nurse's pre-assessment, to the transcriptionist who codes up the notes, to the accounting department that wraps all of that up into a nice large bill for you, your information will travel through at least half a dozen entities not even directly related to the hospital (off site radiologists and transcriptionists in India who evaluate images and notes, pharmacy reorder that provide dispensary data to suppliers for "predictive" ordering, outside lab who process your tests, etc. etc. etc) .
The biggest single hit you'll take is when your billing information hits the "information clearing house". This is a neat little place the insurance industry has set up to check past health care rerecords for any "preexisting" conditions preclude them from actually having to pay for anything despite your years of dues paying loyalty to their bullshit "insurance' program. All of your past medical records live there via billing information and a lot of times it's tied into credit card usage and is searchable (for a fee, of course) by those outside of the medical profession.
I'd suggest that you read "Database Nation" if you really want to understand what happens to your medical information and why HIPAA doesn't really matter (unless you're an identity thief).
HIPAA doesn't even apply to the industry it's supposed to regulate (beyond giving useless administrators of the health care bureaucracy something to appear to be busy with) and you're asking if it applies to the government?
You should consider a career in comedy.