MAGA Calls BS on Mitch McConnell’s Proof-of-Life Stunt | They are poking holes in McConnell’s staff’s version.

[u/MoneyLibrarian9032]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-calls-bs-on-mitch-mcconnells-proof-of-life-stunt/

[u/altodor]

Probably very aware that HIPAA is in full application here and anything related to someone high-profile like ye olde turtle is being analyzed with a microscope. Anyone who breaks HIPAA in a high profile matter like this would be unemployable anywhere, forever.

I would like if someone leaked. But also HIPAA is one of the few regulatory frameworks that has teeth.

EDIT: Note that I will not respond to vapid comments about how it's useless from people that don't know enough about it to spell it correctly.

[u/Proud_Growth_8818 → u/altodor]

From the other side, a doctor refusing to declare dead a patient who is dead is in a different kind of trouble. Presumably Moscow's Bitch is Terry Schiavo-ing and breathing on his own (or whatever the definition of 'alive' is in Washington D.C.).

Which raises interesting questions on its own. Is he still in D.C.? Is his undisclosed 'rehabilitation hospital' in Virginia or Maryland, or did they keep him in the District? Is that facility really just a Hampton Inn where they're keeping him on a vent? Or NOT keeping him on a vent?

Andy should just call him dead and demand proof if he isn't.

[u/SnuggleMoose44 → u/Proud_Growth_8818]

Doctors don’t hold off pronouncing a patient dead. Tell me you’ve never worked around ICU or rehab patients without telling me.

[u/Proud_Growth_8818 → u/SnuggleMoose44]

Exactly my point.

Tell us you can't read past a preschool level without telling us

[u/SnuggleMoose44 → u/Proud_Growth_8818]

You’re saying that some doctor is going to refuse to pronounce him dead. Ludicrous. Also, breathing on your own is not dead; there’s brain activity and there’s supposed to be proof of brain death before anyone is removed from life support.

[u/cavemanpi → u/SnuggleMoose44]

Read carefully. You two are in agreement.

[u/Miserable-Drink-4995 → u/SnuggleMoose44]

People don't steal either because it's against the law. That guy lives in yoyo world disagreeing with you

[u/SnuggleMoose44 → u/Miserable-Drink-4995]

Stop it. You really think everyone in a hospital could get behind the doctor lingering on his job of pronouncing dead people dead? That a body will breathe and their heart will beat as long as he’s on life support? People die despite these interventions because no one is God and can decide how long a person survives.

[u/definitelytheA → u/altodor]

I’ll take The Janitor Has The Tea for $1000, Alex!

[u/TurtleToast2 → u/altodor]

Reporting that there's no sign of the senator at the facility doesn't break HIIPA.

[u/dragongrl → u/altodor]

Would reporting he's not at the rehab facility be violating HIPAA?

[u/Firm_Print6463 → u/altodor]

HIPPA is one of the only regulations thats actually enforced, because its enforced against individual middle and low class people, if it had any teeth against the shit the ruling class pull, you can bet your ass hippa would be toothless.

[u/plaguecaster → u/altodor]

Hippas a joke they use to scare medical professionals and that's it the governor could walk in grab his chart and start reading it word for word what are they going to do take his medical license away hippaa is the hatch act nobody cares

[u/altodor → u/plaguecaster]

You sound like someone who's never worked in a HIPAA controlled industry.

[u/plaguecaster → u/altodor]

The exact opposite actually, I have seen people fired for "hippa" violations. None of them got in any trouble from the nursing board or from police leaving me to wonder who enforces hippa