Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About Customers
> Insurers contend they use the information to spot health issues in their clients — and flag them so they get services they need.<p>Horse shit. And I say that as someone who writes claims management software for the healthcare industry.<p>I challenge ANY health insurer to provide examples of this. Of course, they won't, because they'll cite "patient confidentiality", but that just doesn't happen.<p>They've wanted to do this for years, though, and try to. Requests to be able mine claim data for familial predispositions to diseases was one that we fended off multiple times.