{"id":762,"date":"2008-07-25T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2008-07-25T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:38:00","slug":"they-know-whats-in-your-medicine-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"They Know What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

They Know What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet<\/a>:
“That prescription you just picked up at the drugstore could hurt your chances of getting health insurance.<\/p>\n

An untold number of people have been rejected for medical coverage for a reason they never could have guessed: Insurance companies are using huge, commercially available prescription databases to screen out applicants based on their drug purchases.<\/p>\n

Privacy and consumer advocates warn that the information can easily be misinterpreted or knowingly misused. At a minimum, the practice is adding another layer of anxiety to a marketplace that many consumers already find baffling. ‘It’s making it harder to find insurance for people,’ says Jay Horowitz, an independent insurance agent in Overland Park, Kan.”<\/p>\n

This would be funny if it weren’t so disturbing.<\/em>
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We’ve been having a running joke at our house that our pharmacist is going to think I’m the most diseased man on the planet because I keep getting medications from my local grocer’s $4 drug list for my dog! <\/strong><\/em>
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I’ve been getting him antibiotics, oral and ophthalmic and topical, in a wide variety, steroids, and other stuff in my name because paying for these is far cheaper than at the vet’s! Now none of these have been charged to my insurer, I strictly pay cash, but clearly my name will be in the databases with all these drugs. So next time I have to switch plans….<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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