...just like professional tax return preparers once the tax code/law got too crazy. <grin>I love unintended consequences.</grin> What you mention is an importa

...just like professional tax return preparers once the tax code/law got too crazy. <grin>I love unintended consequences.</grin> What you mention is an important knock-on effect. There will be entrepreneurial jobs created that are new because of this. There was a NY Times story on HN recently [can't find it now] about medical scribes: assistants who follow around physicians all day and update the electronic health care record-keeping systems. They free doctors from data entry so the doctors can doctor patients. My PhD thesis was originally about classified information in the intelligence community---but you know what? It's not about that at all; it's about health care records privacy, and insurance companies acting just like competing national intelligence agencies---and the same security controls work in both situations. You think NSA has a file on you? Wait until you see what kind of privacy violations that Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, and Protective can get up to. There are new companies to be started in this area. Edit: explain what medical scribes do