To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

Ban the outsourcing of medical records

Ban the outsourcing of patient medical records and bring these jobs back to America!

Why is this important?

Huge layoffs due to outsourcing by medical transcription companies have left hundreds if not thousands jobless. Professional medical transcriptionists were terminated without warning. Consider the cost of unemployment and retraining of these individuals, many of whom were at the height of their careers. Not only is this a question of jobs going overseas, but more importantly it is an invasion of the privacy of the medical record. There are no regulations in place to protect patient privacy such as the HIPAA regulations under which all U.S. medical transcriptions trained and complied. Was the constitution written to protect corporate greed or the individual? I encourage each and every state (since the MTs affected by this outsourcing come from every state in the union),to ban the outsourcing of medical records and bring these jobs back to America at once!