Looking at records in general, not as to any one person, could be a public health reason in order to discover if certain illnesses are up or down.
To screen records as to individuals sounds like death panel business to see if you have reached your end date as treatment would be costly should you linger.
“Looking at records in general, not as to any one person, could be a public health reason in order to discover if certain illnesses are up or down.”
They do this now. They are empowered by law to do this now for many communicable illnesses. I’d actually be in favor of this if the data was “guaranteed” to be used at a city, state, or regional level that was personally unidentifiable. Problem is, I trust them with this information less than I would trust the Chinese government or Al Quieda with it. Seriously.