Archive for August 4th, 2008
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Next up: outlaw cash.
Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers
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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Traditionally, insurance companies have judged an applicant’s risk by gathering medical records from physicians’ [...]