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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
Employers, especially big employers that essentially issue their own insurance, already have access to some of this information. I hadn't read that employers were going to gain access to the database, though...guess I need to read up on that more. I AM concerned about that, and the privacy/security issue in general. I don't really trust the government to build the most secure database around.
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I didn't mean to imply that I read anything that you need to. I just think that having one unified database will essentially mean that anyone who has access now would have access to everything. It's also difficult to imagine successfully locking the folks who control payment in the present system out.
It's hard to see the database leading to the benefits that it could provide while at the same time having the safeguards in privacy that most of us would be comfortable with. Either it's something that provides total access to your complete history to anyone who might need it, even in an emergency when you couldn't give consent, OR it's limited and protected in access and can't deliver its complete promise.
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