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Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale
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."
No, it is your fault, you liberal hippie. If you would stop being lazy, you could get your physician's license and cure your own problems instead of depending on others to help you. Ron Paul 4ever!
Even people in good health would really rather not let additional people know they had a vasectemy, eh?
Are you kidding? I wish the doctor's office gave me a t-shirt and a tattoo to advertise that my baby batter has been replaced with "I Can't Believe It's Not Sperm".
More Twoson than Cupertino
Nothing wrong with a little selective breading. Make that part of the insurance policy. We'll treat you for your known, genetic conditions that will most likely be passed on to any children, if you agree to be sterilized. It's either that or start repopulating major cities with large carnivors to take care of the slow and the week.
It would take care of the obsesity problem and protect endangered species all at the same time!
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My grandma was a werewolf, and colloidal silver *killed* her, you insensitive clod.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai