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The headline is not alarming enough. This is being done without proper consent from patients and the healthcare "innovation" is likely to be inaccessible to man
by AlexandrB 7y ago
The headline is not alarming enough. This is being done without proper consent from patients and the healthcare "innovation" is likely to be inaccessible to many of those same patients due to how unaffordable health care (including preventative care) is in the US.
Edit: It basically doesn't matter what procedure Google's algorithm says you should get. If your insurance doesn't want to cover it, you're not getting it.
- rickncliff 7y agoEvidently "consent" isn't lawfully required. The hope is that any breakthrough might lower healthcare costs, and in the worst case scenario at least some patients might benefit which is still a win.
- AlexandrB 7y ago> Evidently "consent" isn't lawfully required. Ethics != law. Just because it's lawful doesn't mean it's ethical or that we shouldn't be outraged. Edit: > The hope is that any breakthrough might lower healthcare costs Perhaps then Google should instead lobby hard for single-payer. Most countries with a single-payer systems have lower health care costs than the US. It's a proven solution that will lower costs, not a "hope".
- sukilot 7y agoIs it your claim that only a trivial portion of the $billions in healthcare spending is being spent on healthcare for the average insured people?
- noelsusman 7y agoThose forms you sign when you go to the doctor include consent to transmit your data to third parties as allowed under HIPAA regulations.