Parents Denied Access
Senate bill 2296 and Assembly bill 3528 would REQUIRE parents and guardians in New Jersey to be provided access to medical records of their children.
A New Jersey mother logs into the MyChart online medical records account to see her child’s tests results, but she is denied access by one of the major hospital healthcare networks.
Why? Because her 12-year-old child is considered an emancipated adult by the internal polices of this hospital and therefore, HIPPA privacy rights do not allow other adults, including the child’s mother access to these records.
According to the hospital financial billing department, the mother is fully responsible for paying for the medical tests and treatments. Yet, according to their corporate executive leadership team, the mother has no rights to the medical records which she is financially responsible for.
This is happening to parents across New Jersey.
They are only granted MyChart “proxy” access.
What is “proxy” access? This means Moms and Dads can communicate with their kids’ physician through the MyChart online account — but they cannot access their child’s medical records.
Is this happening in YOUR state?
Senate bill 2296 and Assembly bill 3528 were introduced earlier this year in the New Jersey legislature, bills that would REQUIRE parents and guardians to be provided access to medical records of their children.
Did you know? Current New Jersey law prohibits parents from being notified of their child’s abortion at any age, sexually transmitted infections over the age of 13, and mental health treatments over the age of 16 (and the legislature is trying to lower this to 14)!
Besides these three reasons to keep parents in the dark, state law does not prohibit parents from accessing their child’s medical records for cancer, viral infections, or other chronic health issues – yet many hospitals are denying parents these records!
If you are a New Jersey parent, join a coalition of parental rights groups on Thursday, May 16 in Trenton for a Lobbying Day:
New Jersey Family Policy Center: NJFPC.org
#KIDSFIRST
While I live in California and know nothing about current NJ politics, I can still confidently predict that EVERY Democrat in the Senate and the Assembly will vote against these bills.
The Democrats are ALL-IN on trans ideology, everywhere across the country, and these bills would put a dent in that. So Democrats will vote in lock-step against them.
In Texas, a statehouse Democrat (Shawn Nicole Thierry) voted against a trans-friendly bill. She got primaried, came in 2nd in a 3-way primary, and will almost certainly lose her runoff at the end of May.
THIS is why the Democrats cower before the transifiers.
The ONLY way to fix this is to make them more fearful of losing for going against trans than for being for it, and the only way to do THAT is to make as many of them as possible LOSE TO REPUBLICANS.
So, New Jersey: get busy!
Crazy!