I am in the healthcare industry (public services) and I actually agree with both sides of the argument. Freeing healthcare data from its current ethical/legal s

I am in the healthcare industry (public services) and I actually agree with both sides of the argument. Freeing healthcare data from its current ethical/legal shackles would definitely allow for great things in science. It is just as true that it destroys privacy at the population level. There is no doubt that the data will also be used to evil ends and restrains everyone's right to autodetermination (destabilizing politicians, discrimination on hiring, etc.) so the question is simply "do we, as the whole population, want to take that risk?". Some will say yes, others no. This should be subject to a vote at the national level. Progress has often impinged on individual freedom in the past, and I am pretty confident we will solve this the usual way: without asking the public's opinion.