Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy

jfruh writes "Larry Page revealed that he'd been suffering from a vocal cord ailment that impaired his ability to speak for more than a year. The positive feedback he got from opening up about it inspired him to tell attendees at Google I/O that we should all be less uptight about keeping our medical records private. As far as Page is concerned, pretty much the only legitimate reason for worry on this score is fear of being denied health insurance. 'Maybe we should change the rules around insurance so that they have to insure people,' he said."

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Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi

[Anonymous Coward]

I like Bill Gates much more since he stopped babbling his technology-and-business-bullshit and actually put the billions fate threw at him for something useful.

Gates' charitable projects work hand-in-glove with his business interests: all of the projects he funds require that recipients purchase Microsoft software. In a sense, he never did retire. It's hard to see him as a philantropist until he steps back and thinks about how the world might be a better place if organizations didn't have to put so much of their limited financial resources into software.

Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to sound harsh, but why shouldn't an employer be able to know if one of their employees is likely to go postal? And why should a small business have to go bankrupt just because one of their employees developed some rare and incredibly expensive heart disease or gets 'depressed' every other year and can't work?

Medical privacy only helps those who want to con the system or hurt others. Unemployment is high enough as it is. It would be far lower if we cut free the freeloaders.