What They’re Saying
• Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, in response to President Clinton’s announcement of forthcoming regulations on medical privacy, recently said that "Congress had better take a very close look at the details of the president’s privacy regulations when they come out, as this administration’s record on privacy is lousy." She further said that while Clinton had no problem with pushing a national patient i.d. through Congress, he refused to make public his own medical file. She said the "same administration that enacted the federal OASIS program this year to collect pages of intrusive personal information, from toilet habits to sexual activity, from people getting home health care," has "repeatedly abused the privacy of others for its own agenda."
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