Downsizing Health Care Data Sharing

Private companies want access to government health care information to build their business, but they’re access to health care data is shrinking fast. HHS is severely cutting the information it is sharing with third parties.

The change was sparked after the AP reported that healthcare.gov was sending personal identifying information to third parties for marketing, advertising, and internet data performance purposes. 

Privacy advocates, the Electronic  Frontier  Foundation, Senator Hatch and Senator Grassley want the federal government to do more to stop health care data sharing with private companies. 

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