Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers The medical records of every NHS hospital patient in the country have been sold for insurance purposes, The Telegraph can reveal.
The disclosure comes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files were put on hold, amid concerns over the scheme.
Those in charge of the programme have repeatedly insisted that it will be illegal for information extracted from GP files to be sold to insurers, who might seek to target customers or put up their prices.
However, a report by a major UK insurance society discloses that it was able to obtain 13 years of hospital data – covering 47 million patients – in order to help companies “refine” their premiums.
As a result they recommended an increase in the costs of policies for thousands of customers last year. The report by the Staple Inn Actuarial Society – a major organisation for UK insurers – details how it was able to use NHS data covering all hospital in-patient stays between 1997 and 2010 to track the medical histories of patients, identified by date of birth and postcode."
It boasts that “uniquely” they were able to combine these details with information from credit ratings agencies, such as Experian, which record the lifestyle habits of milllions of consumers.
The calculations were used to advise companies how to refine their premiums, resulting in increased premiums for most customers below the age of 50, according to the report dated last March. .........."
Predictable.
The left doesn’t care about the elderly, unless they’re members of the ruling elite, having a sex ‘change’ operation, have aids, or are getting an abortion.
130,000 elderly patients killed every year by ‘death pathway’, claims leading UK doctor
by Thaddeus Baklinski Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:02 EST Tags: euthanasia, patrick pullicino, uk
LONDON, June 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An eminent British doctor told a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in London that every year 130,000 elderly patients that die while under the care of the National Health Service (NHS) have been effectively euthanized by being put on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), n a protocol for care of the terminally ill that he described as a “death pathway.”
Scaled up for relative population size...that gives about 750,000 euthanizing events a year in the USA.
Seems some in the media are straying off the liberal plantation. Odd.
They’re hoping the depressed elderly will commit suicide and they’ll herd the psychotic ones to the showers.
BTTT!
Drug rationing is only the beginning of the cuts in the Medicare program. I expect that procedures such as hip and knee replacements, pace makers and even cancer treatments will be severely rationed. Many seniors who are living independently and suffer a health challenge that could be fixed and allow them to continue their independence will be left untreated and sent to nursing homes. I expect this rationing will fill long term care facilities with seniors who could still be living independently with appropriate treatment.
Who needs a death panel when they have Obama administration’s rationing policy?.
“Drug Rationing for Seniors Begins”
Shouldn’t it be FREE/Subsidized drug rationing begins for seniors?
Seniors have been conditioned to expect much more than what government programs can deliver now and into the future.
If they are willing to spend their own money, they are likely to be able to get whatever they want.
Wait until Dialysis Rationing hits.