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."

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Sinking Ship (and other hyperbolies)

[splitsevin]

I hate to say it, I really, really hate to say it(and most of the time when someone says that it's meant to disguise the fact that they really are enjoying saying it, but honestly, I actually DO hate to say it)but this is just another symptom of the middle and lower class people of the United States getting hosed by large corporations.

Is there any problem, let's say real or overly hyped (global warming, I'm looking your way) that isn't a direct result of the greed of our country?

We're losing ground to China and the EU everyday.

I love capitalism but this cannibalization has got to stop. Only it won't. Our government is designed to pork us just like the corporations do. They are part and parcel.

We have a duopoly that serves none of its electorate save the upper 1%.

China owns our debt. This isn't a recession or a depression it's the end.

First comes the relative financial security of the middle class diminishing. Union jobs? Not anymore. Pensions? Nope. Health/Dental benefits? Not today my friend.

Credit crisis, sub-prime mortgage explosion, inflation, sky-high fuel costs... wonderful. Got an astronomically expensive war in Iraq? Not a problem, we'll just borrow to cover that.

Face it, we're on a sinking ship. There are no life vests, no life boats. We have to accept the fact that we've been suckered by powerful interests in the name of greed and that what we thought was America is gone forever. I just hope the next super power is a democracy.

Bravo upper 1%, bravo.