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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Eric Mack ✉
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.