The original article was published by Bloomberg, here is the link:
Your Doctor Knows You're Killing Yourself. The Data Brokers Told Her
They are calling it "proactive care management" -- just wait until they will ration what you can buy, "for your own good", of course and naturally not giving you proper care, because it's all your fault and you don't deserve it.
Smokers, people with diabetes beware, but not to fear, they wouldn't dare to use that on homosexual people who naturally have a much larger probability to get AIDS.
And if you think this info won’t get to the government and directions on how to ration healthcare, you are dreaming.
Compliant Chamber of Commerce?
/johnny
Insurance exists to price risk, NOT to ‘Pool’ risk.
If you want to smoke, you pay higher for life insurance.
If you don’t care to smoke, you pay lower for life insurance.
Duh.
The price of Freedom is Personal responsibility.
Central planner aholes like Obama don’t get it
Making the assumption of course that individuals consume every item they purchase. I can just hear the doctor now, "Sir, we need to point out that tampons should only be used as feminine care products. As a man, you could seriously injure your health using them." "and about that baby formula, it's very high in calories and will contribute to weight gain, you need to stop using it."
‘We see that you have purchased a firearm in the last year and belong to the NRA...’
Good thing I always use cash to pay for my heroin.
And some people wonder why I haven’t made an electronic transaction in years, Precisely because of things like this as well as all the marketing you are sold to.
homos —
What credit card purchase info will indicate homo activities?
Kentucky Jelly?
Rubber gloves?
Pet shop?
Sorry, my mind won’t go there.
The fact is there is a thriving and growing private industry that is far more intrusive into people's private lives than the government will ever be.
If you browse the Internet someone somewhere is collecting your data, use a cell phone company same, if you use a credit cards, same thing, same with applying for insurance, buying a ticket for any type of travel...the list goes on and on.
If you make any commercial transaction its likely someone somewhere is collecting that information and trying to figure out how to make a buck by selling it...
Fight the tyrants; use cash.
Use cash. Your purchases are none of the crooks’ business.
ping
I have no doubt they will mismatch credit records on file and it will be nearly impossible to correct.
This gets ugly really fast.
“You’re obese, so the supermarket forbids you to buy Little Debbie”
“You’re buying too much alcohol. I don’t care if you SAY you’re having a party - not allowed.”
“Your doctor says you complained about high cholesterol. You aren’t allowed to buy beef unless it is our premium, ultra-lean.”
“You’re buying a lot of romantic items like chocolate and wine on 2/13. The health insurer wants to remind you that you don’t have a contraceptive prescription. You ought to add condoms to your purchase.”