[JohnFen]

> I keep hearing about all of these nightmare scenarios, dreamed up by paranoiacs.

Not at all. These are all things that used to be pretty common. That's why medical privacy laws were enacted.

> Fix THOSE problems instead of killing people.

That would be ideal, yes. But nobody has figured out a way to do that.

BTW, I don't think your phrasing is helpful to your cause. It implies it's a black-and-white issue when in reality it's a very complex issue with a ton of nuance.

People die as a result of the lack of medical privacy too, after all.

> the entities inflicting these consequences don't care about medical privacy anyways, right?

No, they don't. But they do care about the huge fines and other legal consequences they risk by not adhering to the law.