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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Re:Health care, what health care?

[zymano]

There is no capitalism/free markets in our health care system.

Doctors and hospitals need to be transparent about costs.

We also need to remove the requirements for surgeons to have to go through extensive training to be doctors.

All of these requirements add to price of service. It's a little monopoly that the med community preserves in the name of safety.