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They Know What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet
How insurance companies dig up applicants’ prescriptions—and use them to deny coverage

That prescription you just picked up at the drugstore could hurt your chances of getting health insurance.

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.

Parasites like this cannot be reformed; they must be replaced with a single payer system.