From: Martin L. Hirschfeld
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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080302077_pf.html
(For drugs, I have Medicare Plan D from Humana. After I fill a
non-generic, I get a mailing from Humana suggesting a 'similar' less
expensive generic for me to try. I wish I had back the costs of those
mailings. Sylvia)
www.peoplewho.org