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Order to be an employee there, but since this is new, this virus is fairly new and the vaccine is new, meaning seven months that it's been available to people, are you hearing from any employees that they feel like their privacy, right to privacy is in any way being violated, that hipaa laws are being challenged by having to reveal to its employer whether it's had the covid vaccine or not? >> with anything that we do like this to protect the safety of our patients, we will get some individuals who will have concerns like you highlighted. our intent has been to make sure that we're a very safe ...

Cowboys quarterback, dak prescott, refusing to reveal whether he got vaccinated. even borrowing a line from marjorie taylor greene. here's a listen. >> i don't necessarily think that's exactly important clearance, i think that's hipaa. but i understand where zeke comes from. i understand everybody's opinion. and i think everybody's -- has that right. >> he was asked whether it's important to say that he's vaccinated and he said it's not important, and that it's hipaa. it is important, and it's not a violation of hipaa. beyond that, should many of these athletes come right out and say that they...

Others are saying i'm politically superior if i haven't. the truth is, this is a personal decision that people have to make. my wife and i had the vaccine mainly because we just wanted to be able to travel. we wanted to have the peace of mind. hadn't had any effect. some people think, oh, you bowed to the government. no, i have a compromised lung because of having had pneumonia, it was the right decision for me. if somebody doesn't want to get the vaccine, here is my attitude, you're not threatening me. i had the vaccine. i'm okay. if you don't want to get it, that is something you and your do...

>> mark: we have spent trillions of dollars on you and so, therefore, it's our business, the state of your healthcare. with me now is michele bachmann, former presidential candidate and the dean of reejt university's robinson school of government. some of us actually during the debates on obamacare says this is what happens in canada and britain and all kinds of places is that when the government pays for your healthcare, there really isn't any hipaa or medical privacy. >> that's true the government's priorities are the priorities. of the individual's priorities are no longer the individual's ...

Really raising concerns among lawmakers about americans' personal liberties. texas congressman dan crenshaw tweeted this morning, "how about don't knock on my door? you're not my parents, give the government. make the vaccine available and let people be free to choose. why is that concept so hard for the left?" emily, here's my question off the bat. why does the federal government no, at a community to community level, in biden's own words, who has been vaccinated and who has not? is there not a violation of hipaa at play somewhere in the system? >> emily: at a minimum, yeah, that's one of the...