Companies Want Access to Your Medical Files to Speed Up Life Insurance Purchases

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With consumers reluctant to venture out to a lab or doctor’s office, insurers are crunching the data in existing digital records

Americans who want to buy life-insurance policies but are turned off by the often slow-moving application process increasingly have an option for bypassing blood and urine samples. There is a catch. These customers will have to give life-insurance companies access to their private medical records.

 

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As the article states, people are becoming more reclusive in the face of Covid, potentially compromising their health care. Remotely monitored biometrics could be of great value to our medical establishment. The infrastructure is already available making it easily possible.

youcountinc we know this well so we developed a smart at-home urine analyzer for anyone to take an easy 2-min urine test which provides clinically accurate results so you don’t have to go to a busy lab or waiting room.

Dying has always been a profitable business.

Control! OMG

Totally makes sense. Seems like something that could be sent in a blockchain? But I'd have to understand blockchain better than I do to say that definitively.

....uhh 😕

Insurers are so friggen happy not having to pay out during this time!!!

HIPAA...

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