Joe Barton: “I yield myself 30 seconds before I yield to Mr. Castle. Under the current law, called HIPAA, we have very strict privacy…”

“I yield myself 30 seconds before I yield to Mr. Castle. Under the current law, called HIPAA, we have very strict privacy protection guidelines. Those guidelines are currently under review. There have been over 50,000 comments filed with HHS for some proposed changes in those. Nothing in the Senate bill, that is a companion bill to this bill, deals with privacy. Privacy is an important issue, but more important is that we get a health information system technology in place, and that is what this bill does. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the former Governor of the First State, the great State of Delaware (Mr. Castle).”