For Congress, health privacy is top of mind

Politicians on both sides of the aisle agree that more safeguards are needed to protect Americans’ health data. The urgency level has risen as data collection online has grown, states have begun enforcing abortion bans and cyberattacks have increased. Ruth Reader talks with Carmen Paun about the multitude of views that lawmakers, lobbyists and the Biden administration have on how to protect health data, particularly data  not covered by the federal health privacy law, HIPAA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices