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by Spooky23 2803 days ago
Your health data isn’t really private.

Various third parties have real-time access to your hospital admissions and prescriptions, in some cases before your insurer.

As an example, when my wife was admitted to the hospital at 8 weeks for a miscarriage that almost killed her, the level of detail provided to data brokers allowed Enfamil to Fedex a big sample box of formula to us on what would have been the due date of the baby.

No consent was given or needed.