Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 5, 2008 @07:32AM from the slippery-cliff dept.

PizzaFace writes "The Washington Post reports on the booming business of selling your medical treatment records. Today these are mainly records of your prescriptions, but the data warehouses will soon have records of your lab tests, too. The companies selling these records make it easy for insurance companies to avoid risk by assigning each person a health score, similar to a credit score, or by flagging items in each person's history that suggest chronic or potentially expensive health problems. It's not just for insurers, either; employers who check applicants' credit scores will surely be interested in their health scores as well."

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Re:Health care, what health care? by jgarra23 · 2008-08-05 07:36 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What does an article concerning the abusive marketing and perversion of HIPPA in the healthcare industry have anything to do with the politics of it being "barbarous"? Flimsy soapbox at best...
Re:Health care, what health care? by homer_s · 2008-08-05 08:37 · Score: 1, Flamebait

And why do you assume that life has to be fair?
Is it fair that I don't have the programming skills of Linus? Or I don't have the athletic ability of M.Jordan?