[JediSkipdogg]

It's funny that we've been talking about work seeing medical information. THere's an insurance committee right now at my work and it was brought up that maybe the city I work for should go self-insured. I'd say we have maybe 150-200 employees in the city that have health benefits. The city refuses to go self-insured because they know they would need 2-3 people to process all the paperwork which they don't want to hire so most likely they would hire one to oversee it then use the rest of the HR people to assist. They are then worried that since the employees dealing with it will see medical claims and since we are such a small city, that HIPPA would be violated too many times by accident.

I could see so many HIPPA problems in a place that is self-insured and unless you make the employees dealing with the management of the healthcare act like an outsourced company, it's going to happen.