Why is "nothing more sensitive than your medical data"?
I don't get it.
Is this to do with insurance? But now there's no "prior condition" issue, so why is my medical data still sensitive?
I don't get it.
Is this to do with insurance? But now there's no "prior condition" issue, so why is my medical data still sensitive?
Right now there isn't, as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which the party controlling the Congressional majority has repeatedly committed to repealing in its totality (and has voted repeatedly to do) and is actively backing repeated challenges to through the courts.
Policies can change, and information that is made public in a time of favorable policy can't retroactively be made unpublic to protect it from abuse when that policy changes.
Further, insurance discrimination isn't the only area where harmful (economically or otherwise) discrimination on the basis of medical information is a concern, and while there may be some areas where this is restricted by law, people can break laws and pursuing legal remedies is an after the fact solution that is neither guaranteed effective nor free of its own costs, but people can't discriminate based on information they don't have.
I'm not sure nothing is more sensitive than your medical data, but it's definitely sensitive.
Medical data discloses your sex, drinking, smoking, drug, and physical habits, along with any mental issues, genetic pre-dispositions, where you live, who your family are, where you have worked, etc. With only a little inference you can get financial information from a person's medical records.
TLDR;
• Financial records are designed to track accurate exchanges of money.
• Medical records are designed to keep an accurate representation of you. The goal is explicitly more personal.