HIPAA stands for health insurance portability and accountability act. This law was enacted by the Federal government and what it does is to offer privacy to a patient's health information.
A patient's medical records and information is kept private. Whenever these individuals health information, and medical records are needed to be released to another entity such as a doctor or an employer, this person must be the one to give permission for it to be released in the form of a written authorisation.
the Southern states had tried to secede from the united states due to disagreements on slavery in the stated which then let to one of the biggest events which was the civil war.
