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Kassebaum-Kennedy bill

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Kassebaum-Kennedy bill
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, see there


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From the establishment of neighborhood health clinics 30 years ago, to the Americans with Disabilities Act, to greater funding for health research, to the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill that protects people's healthcare when they change or lose their jobs, to children's health reform with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
The result was the Kassebaum-Kennedy Bill, entitled the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), signed into law (Public Law 104-191) by President Clinton on August 21, 1996.
In 1996, Congress passed the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill, the health insurance portability law, which made it illegal for group health insurers to deny coverage to any individual based on genetic information.
 
 
 
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