[Med-privacy] Prescription Data is valuable to marketers

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

David and all,

  Well isn't this just lovely < sarcasm intended >  Now it seems
elderly, and folks that contact some non curable disease will be
unable to afford if even get health insurance in the future...  Those
that already have health insurance, will either pay much higher
premiums or be dropped.

David Lesher wrote:

> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080302077.html?hpid=topnews>
>
> Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers
>
> By Ellen Nakashima
>
> Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new
> tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health
> "credit report" drawn from databases containing prescription drug
> records on more than 200 million Americans.
>
> ....
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