PizzaFace writes "The Washington Post reports on the booming business selling your medical treatment records. Today they are mainly records of your prescriptions, but the data warehouses will soon have records of your lab tests, too. The companies that sell 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; employers who check applicants' credit scores will surely be interested in their health scores, too." Link to Original Source
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