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Nefarious indeed. Once they know who you are, they match you against insurance industry databases and can infer many health conditions and other stuff.

If you’re timely with prenatal care, marketers can predict a woman’s delivery data within a week with high confidence.



Obamacare banned insurer price discrimination for pre-existing conditions.


They sell the data for marketing other products.




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