Modern Eugenics: how we can cull the herd and save money at the same time

Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers
Records Aid Insurers but Prompt Privacy Concerns

Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health "credit report" drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.

Collecting and analyzing personal health information in commercial databases is a fledgling industry, but one poised to take off as the nation enters the age of electronic medical records. While lawmakers debate how best to oversee the shift to computerized records, some insurers have already begun testing systems that tap into not only prescription drug information, but also data about patients held by clinical and pathological laboratories.

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Doomsday plan would close 2 Cook hospitals
All 12 of county's neighborhood clinics also would be shut

(Crain’s) — Cook County would close two of its three hospitals and a center that treats one-third of the area’s HIV patients under a doomsday budget scenario officials put forth Friday.