Accountable with civil and criminal penalties. They enable patients to learn how their information may be used and they can obtain a copy of their Health Records and request corrections. Joining me is the president and cofounder of Citizens Council for health freedom. Shes a registered nurse. She says the mission is support the protection of Health Care Choices and medical choices. Thank you for being with us. Flood dplglad to be here. Thank you. Why are you urging people not to sign the hipaa forms . The hipaa form is really a deception. What hipaa is or what the public believes about it is is it protects their privacy. It does the opposite. Once hipaa became law in 1996 and the rule went into effect, what happened was all sorts of people were allowed to share and access our medical records without our consent. It is the only reason that we have computerized medical records and the only reason that the Health Department says, for instance, that 700,000 covered entities which are docto