Good points made by this article...if you don't believe this is happening, take a look at this site...a site where "anonymous" information is shared by insurers all the time...one big data base set up to work on preventing fraud, which is a good thing, however, with data mining and locating anonymous information it can easily be queried to the visit time, physician, location, etc. to find a match...most all insurers report to the MIB and this is a huge data base that can be queried and used to locate information by the insurance industry. BD
Whatever happened to the days when privacy like silence was golden? They are long gone. Nowadays it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate against smokers, openly search online for employees who might be posting about their health issues to online forums, and ask for employees to sign waivers granting access to your and your dependent's medical records, or to fill out health questionnaire's to determine health wise how much of a risk of cost you or your dependent's are.
"Believe it or not, all four of these things are happening now as we speak. Once you've disclosed personal information about your health or your dependent's health, that information becomes part of the public domain, and is free game for employers or anyone else for that matter to access and use how they see fit."
The problem with companies making the release of health information, and participation in good health programs and or services mandatory in order to keep health costs down, is that it takes away your right to choose. That's right, I think that you should have the choice of whether or not you exercise, whether or not you want to eat a candy bar at lunch instead of an apple, and whether or not you smoke. The whole idea of our country even coming into being was so that people would have the right to choose.
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