The privacy portions of HIPA were a balanced between a persons right to privacy vs a persons rights to free speech. Much of the foundations of a right to medical privacy is based on Rowe V. Wade. Without a right to medical privacy, HIPA could be an unconstitutional constraint on medical personnel's rights to free speech. I'm not being absurd, the second order consequences of this ruling are going to be vast.
And it got thrown out for precisely this reason. Although cocaine can be prescribed in very limited circumstances, my doctor cannot just write me a prescription for cocaine. That's a "medical privacy" issue too, right?
> is HIPA still valid?
Don't be absurd.