Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax TV: Trump Covered by HIPAA

By    |   Monday, 05 October 2020 07:55 PM EDT ET

President Donald Trump has a legal right under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to keep details of his health status private, according to legal expert Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax TV.

"Doctors are bound by HIPAA unless the president affirmatively tells them to release the information," Dershowitz told Monday's "Greg Kelly Reports." "Absent an affirmative statement to release the information, every doctor is bound by HIPAA, whether it's the president of the United States or anybody else

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President Donald Trump has a legal right under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to keep details of his health status private, according to legal expert Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax TV's "Greg Kelly Reports."
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