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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 establishes federal standards protecting sensitive health information from disclosure without patient's consent. - CDC
There must be some people out there who want to keep their medical records confidential, but I ain't one of them, and I don't understand this overarching desire for privacy. I suppose if you are operating in a contentious environment with people who will use any means, fair or foul, to trip you up or bring you down, you could want your medical records secure. Or you might just be paranoid. In the past I have just removed myself from those situations, but that may not always be feasible.
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| Vintage Oldsmobile Delivery Truck |
In 1919, the automaker made its next serious run at the commercial vehicle market with the Oldsmobile Economy Truck. Rated at one to two tons, the Economy was extensively advertised in the living-room magazines of the day and marketed primarily to farmers and merchants. Under the hood was an overhead-valve four of 224 cubic inches with 40 hp that was shared with some Olds passenger cars, paired with a conventional three-speed gearbox. Geared for pulling with a double-reduction rear axle, the vehicle was limited to 24 mph. Available as a chassis, a chassis and cab, or an open express, the Economy Truck was offered through 1924 and more than 16,000 were produced.
A short, amusing essay from Essays in Idleness:
A fresh start by David WarrenThere are many causes of an unhappy childhood; by-and-large, I tend to blame the child. In exceptional cases, I might blame the parent, but I know exceptional children can overcome them. A greater tyranny is a childhood without play, and free wandering, or not in the open air. This generally ends in feminism, and bad marriages, but again, only if the child lacks good will. Architectural influences, for the worse, exist in every modern city, and on balance unhappiness is distributed more in urban than in rural environments, but the urbanity could itself be overcome where the urban young are not encouraged to be lazy, and insolent.
I don’t think such factors are adequately considered in our political sociology. A third of a century ago, when the Ontario socialist party suddenly won after a campaign of only six weeks, I tried to make this point. “It takes more than six weeks to make a socialist,” I wrote in a local newspaper. “It takes a whole unhappy childhood.”
To my surprise, several of the socialists I knew openly agreed with me, and others established an “encounter group” to discuss their respective miserable infancies. This suggests that there are more effective ways to undermine the Left, than by excruciating economic measures. Irrational happiness is the leading instrument, and humour should be tried — shamelessly until it becomes contagious.
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| Ethiopian men gather in Addis Ababa, heavily armed with captured Italian weapons, to hear the proclamation announcing the return to the capital of the Emperor Haile Selassie in May 1941. © Wikipedia |
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