Diana DeGette actually said...

"I think what we need to do is we need to--providers need to understand what their abilities are under HIPAA."

"Misinterpretations of HIPAA and other private laws were also identified by the GAO and by President Obama's Gun Violence Task Force as an obstacle to reporting individuals who should be barred from gu..."

"I am not going to blindly defend HIPAA, but I think we should be very, very careful when we contemplate changes to that statute."

"I think we can all agree that HIPAA provides many important protections for people's medical privacy."