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chasfm11 wrote:

n5wd wrote:

Jumping Frog wrote:I see you are new to this forum, so WELCOME!

jlw02tx wrote:It's not confiscation I'm worried about, it's my insurance company using it against me that I'm worried about. Not to mention the fact that anyone who has access to their computers has my home address and knows that there are guns in the house. I go back and forth between being irritated and thinking I'm making a big deal out of nothing.

Don't forget that part of Obama-"care" is establishing a national medical information database. If is far more than just your insurance company.

Jumping Frog, you're just plain wrong on this one! The Medical Information Bureau, now known as the MIB Group http://www.mib.com/ has since 1902, been exchanging information amongst insurance companies, both life and health, regarding the vast amount of Americans who have used healthcare paid for by insurance, or have put in a life insurance claim. And, they share their information with "other consumer reporting agencies", namely the credit reporting agencies. You feel better about everyone knowing your business, now?

I've carefully reviewed every piece of information that is on our credit bureau reports and can find nothing that looks like any of this data. Does that mean that the three credit agencies are deliberately withholding data that they collect about me?

I honestly don't know the answer to that question, but can tell you that only one of the three credit bureaus had anything about medical stuff on our credit report, and that was a disputed charge with a physician's lab years ago that the physician sent to collections while we were going into arbitration about it (and he got sanctioned by the arbiter for that move). It just shows that the account had gone into arbitration - doesn't mention the money amount or anything like that. It may be that the bureaus are only interested in some of the info that they have available from MIB, but the quote was directly from their web site in the information for insurance consumers.

Jumping Frog wrote:I see you are new to this forum, so WELCOME!

jlw02tx wrote:It's not confiscation I'm worried about, it's my insurance company using it against me that I'm worried about. Not to mention the fact that anyone who has access to their computers has my home address and knows that there are guns in the house. I go back and forth between being irritated and thinking I'm making a big deal out of nothing.

Don't forget that part of Obama-"care" is establishing a national medical information database. If is far more than just your insurance company.

Jumping Frog, you're just plain wrong on this one! The Medical Information Bureau, now known as the MIB Group http://www.mib.com/ has since 1902, been exchanging information amongst insurance companies, both life and health, regarding the vast amount of Americans who have used healthcare paid for by insurance, or have put in a life insurance claim. And, they share their information with "other consumer reporting agencies", namely the credit reporting agencies. You feel better about everyone knowing your business, now?

Obamacare finalized plans that required health care information to be computerized, but the info has been reported to the Medical Information Bureau for many decades before that.

The the OP: jlw02tx - as others have said, if you're uncomfortable with the doc, find a new pediatrician. Your doc also has a requirement to tell you what he does with that information - ask him. And don't let him just show you the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) form that you had to sign - ask him specifically what he does with the answer to that question. If you don't like the answers, tell him you're going to find a new doc, and then do that. You might find that he's more willing to delete that info than you found, before.