A rock and a hard place? Ministry of Defence | Defence News | MOD confirms loss of recruitment data

[Roland Perry]

In article <4EF9E2EF-E34E-49CD-8579-0891B282FCD4@imaj.es>, James Cox 
<james@imaj.es> writes
>>> The goal is for the  insurance companies to be able to properly 
>>>account and bill for  procedures: they don't really have a good 
>>>reason to know what the  diagnosis is, etc.
>>
>> Given that'll commonly exclude "pre-existing conditions", I think 
>>they do need to know.
>
>No, they will just blacklist certain treatments and drugs. If i have 
>pre-existing angina, they may choose to not cover regular ECGs and 
>whatever the current preferred treatment is (of course, in the UK, the 
>NHS will pay for the latter anyhow)...
>
>but take something like a cancer or kidney failure: there are a number 
>of treatments and drugs which would be specific here - with drugs 
>running into the thousands per dose and dialysis not being cheap - it's 
>fairly simple to block out the treatment.

All this shows is that the insurance companies know what treatments they 
are paying for, which is a relatively good proxy for what conditions you 
have.
-- 
Roland Perry