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?n5wd wrote: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?Jumping Frog wrote:I see you are new to this forum, so WELCOME!
Don't forget that part of Obama-"care" is establishing a national medical information database. If is far more than just your insurance company.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.
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.
Maybe I've missed it but who is responsible for the doctors being required to ask the question? The insurance company that covers the doctor? The medical insurance companies that cover the patients? Some governmental mandate? I cannot believe that doctors do this without prompting from someone.
We've taken our granddaughter in for treatment several times and have never been asked a question like this. So either both of the pediatricians that we visited with her were not complying or we just look like the "firearms types."
If they had asked, I'd probably have said "yes and I cling to my religion, too." 