Partly true. Insurance companies (in BC) can get a complete list of _every_ medical practitioner you've seen, and when, including ones out-of-province. Not the complete records, no, but enough to subpoena - or simply request - any and all records. Permission to acquire such records (_without_ subpoena) is difficult to deny, in a negative-billing sort of way.

A perfect example of how the loss of a small amount of privacy can lead to the loss of a large amount of privacy.

If your wife is a member of Overeaters Anonymous and the Purdy's Chocolates (c) (TM) (R) truck keeps pulling up to your house, sooner or later your neighbours will let you know...! LOL

Frank

Kevin Anderson wrote:

Insurance Companies in BC have (unsuccessfully) petitioned for access to Medical records, including DNA. How could you possibly think that they wouldn't use other, easier methods to access the same (or similar) data?



-- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)



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