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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (5316)3/14/2008 5:54:24 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
"Millions of people now have medical data stored with insurance companies, Medicare, etc. This is not a new issue, right?"

I know a medical practice that had a wireless access point with the default password inside their network. The passwords were simple and not set to required to change periodically. They redesigned the front of their practice so people at the counter could not see the medical records in the back of the office. It distracted their patients from how insecure their records actually were.

Most insurance companies spend extensively to protect patient records. I am sorry, but generating profit by adding ads to my search based on my known medical history makes anyone sniffing my connection able to determine things about my medical history they should not have access to. The business model is to build a billboard with your medical history displayed. At a bare minimum your officemates, network administrator and IT department will have information about you that you might not have wanted to share. That is before discussing your ISP and anyone who has a trojan on your computer or any computer in your subnet (such as everyone on your cable company loop such as neighbors).

Then there is the issue of asking if medical ads will only display if you are logged into the medical records system or all of the time.
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