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I used to work for a company that wrote software for health insurers to run their businesses, from determining financial responsibilities and amounts, all the w
by FireBeyond 2y ago
I used to work for a company that wrote software for health insurers to run their businesses, from determining financial responsibilities and amounts, all the way through cutting checks to providers, handling repricing, everything.
I wish I could say I got out of there for ethical reasons (there were good reasons, but if that was the only...)
We did a LOT to be ethical. The amount of requests we turned down from our customers - "If we have a database of familial relationships (who knows what, or from where, be it public records or 23andme), how can we mine the database with that information to determine people's predisposition to certain conditions based on familial diagnoses?"
"You can't."
"Why not, it's in the database?"
"Yes. But that is federally illegal for you to do. And if it's illegal for you to do, we are not going to facilitate it either."
But the writing was on the wall, I'm sure at some point there would be more and more "grey areas".