What is HIPAA? Donner Tame didn’t know what HIPAA was, there hadn’t been any trainings and he wasn’t about to start asking around. He was proud of who he was and where he came from. He had never been fired before and never had any idea that he would have been. His life came crashing before his eyes one day though as he walked in his bosses office. He had been running behind and he knew it. However good he was at what he did he just hadn’t been in his right mind the last few days. His wife wanted more money his kids were hungry and he knew that asking for a raise was out of the question at this point.
Grad School His heart was failing him. He knew he could do a lot more with his life but he just didn’t have the guts to go to grad school. There were just too many loopholes to jump through and he was tired of it all. The bureaucracy, the lies, all of it was wearing him thin and he knew he wouldn’t last much longer. How long had it been since he had smiled when he came home? Why was he letting this job get the best of him? These were questions he asked himself every day. He knew he didn’t belong in an office doing stupid marketing but he also knew that deep down what he wanted would never pay the bills. He wanted to be back where he grew up, he wanted to sit on his old horse Red’s back and head out on another adventure. He wanted to whistle at the cattle and push them through the most rugged territory in Texas. He was built for it and he loved it but somewhere he had gotten lost and found a new life that had created a docile dying personality inside him. He knew he wasn’t meant for this, but how could he tell the kids. His son was sick and his wife was tired. She was a city girl and he knew she wouldn’t last on a ranch, not for one second. As he sat there thinking his life out the boss came in and asked him to come to the meeting room. There were hundreds of business medals and there in the corner were the boss’s golf clubs. He loved his golf, which Donner just could force himself to like.
HIPAA
The boss sat him down and started explaining the plight of the company. Ultimately all that was ringing in Donner’s ears were the words “you are fired�. Donner was given the complete explanation of HIPAA. It was the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that congress passed in 1996. This basically provided American workers with the ability to transfer and continue using their health insurance coverage alongside their families when they lose their jobs or change them. He knew this would be the only way that he could take care of his boy and he was grateful for it. Photo Credit: fernviewcenter, balkaninside