But as no one (yet) needs private health insurance, and very few people have it, it is not (yet) a societal worry that the data will be used to "offer a choice"

But as no one (yet) needs private health insurance, and very few people have it, it is not (yet) a societal worry that the data will be used to "offer a choice" to people based on genetic misfortune (the choice is bankruptcy or death). > NHS is also chronically underfunded. That's very much by ideological design. A recent ex-health minister even co-wrote a book which contained this: > Our ambition should be to break down the barriers between private & public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain. Notably he became health minister after this, not before, so the appointment says a lot about what the Party has in mind. If you look at the graph of waiting times, his tenure is from 2012-2018, and the party is in place from 2010 and quickly has the knives out to ruin the then-recent improvement. https://www.statista.com/chart/27447/nhs-hospital-waiting-times/ https://www.statista.com/chart/27447/nhs-hospital-waiting-ti... The latest squeeze on "efficiency" (dragging this back into technology) is throwing AI (read: more consultancy contracts) at it.