Check out this article . If it passes and the NFL doesn't find a way around it, think of the impact on fantasy football. We may no longer get an official injury report on Wednesdays and would have to make blind lineup choices about potentially injured players.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)..Is disigned for the Health care industry for the use of electronic medical records and other 'Heath care information' privacy...This should NOT effect sports...It's kinda funny that someone in the Bungals organization is worried about thier players...when have they ever been concerned..LOL

But HIPAA is for the health care and insurnace industies...Yes it 'could' impact sports (employee/employer)...but the team ususally has a team doctor who is also an employee and in his contract they could write a loophole 'around' HIPPA regulations...or a team could write in the players contracts..which is more likely to happen that they must disclose any injury to the team MD and then in turn have the MD disclose it to the coach admin..etc...

As far as the injury list...this may be an issue if some politically correct A-hole player deciedes he dosen't want his injury disclosed..then it will be his right..so it could become like Playoff hockey...where they say injured leg..and he's got a ACL torn...so that could be bad...but I bet this issue gets put on the bargining table soon...

I deal with HIPPA everyday...so I think this is a non issue at this point...IMO until the collective bargining agreement comes up again..

As long as there is gambling on the NFL, there will be an injury report. IMHO

Scooter put it just right.

And Manzier makes a nice point...LOL

Exactly! As long as there is an NFL there will be gambling. And as long as there is gambling there will be an injury report. Gambling is bigger than any sport in the world and if they want injuries reported before the weekend...........................you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a weekly injury report!

We use "backups" in our league. You get to name a starter and a backup for every game. If a player plays one down of the game, his stats count. If he doesn't, the backup's stats are used.

THIS IS A HUGE RULING....AND THUS MAY IMPACT WHAT HIPPA ACTUALLY DOES..

MINNEAPOLIS -- Lawyers for Korey Stringer's widow want the Minnesota Vikings to release information on other players who had heat-related illnesses.

Stringer died last Aug. 1 from heatstroke after collapsing a day earlier at training camp in Mankato. A wrongful death lawsuit by Kelci Stinger contends the Vikings forced her husband to practice in high heat and humidity, and he received inadequate medical care.

Paul DeMarco, a lawyer representing Kelci Stringer, said in court Monday the names, symptoms, complaints and treatment of Vikings players who had heat illnesses during the past 40 years should be disclosed.

Vikings attorney James O'Neal said any information related to heat illnesses that is produced should be limited to the period when Stringer was with the team.

O'Neal said he would like to produce information showing what he said are the exemplary medical practices of the Vikings. But the information is private under Minnesota law, and players would have to waive their privacy protections, he said.

Attorney David Alsop, representing the team's training camp physician, Dr. David Knowles, and the Mankato Clinic, said information on treatment and opinions of players' injuries and conditions, even from 40 years ago, also is protected.

Judge Gary Larson asked O'Neal to make his best effort to locate Vikings who have played since 1995, when Stringer joined the team, to see whether they would voluntarily release their medical records.

Larson did not say when he would rule on the motion that medical documents be turned over to Kelci Stringer's lawyers.

I'm usually pretty sympathetic to widows/widowers but this women just makes my stomach turn. What possible reason would the Vikings have of not taking every precaution viewed as necessary to keep Stringer alive?? He was a huge part of their franchise and a valueable "asset" to them. The idea that they would just let him die is absurded. The fact that this case has not been tossed out the window is just another sign of the apacolypse!

Maybe I should sue my boss for making me come to work. I think this stress is just too much and if he didn't make me work I wouldn't have an ulcer. So I'm going to sue my boss for medical expenses and $150 million in emotional damages.
Some people in this country just make me sick!