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Suppose, hypothetically, that the government (federal and/or state) offered a free, voluntary program where you could sign up for one blood draw and health questionnaire once every 5 years that could be used for public health research and "health demographics", so that society could have updated data on health trends and metrics, sort of a "health census". Suppose also it was made super-convenient (you could choose any time of day and any time of week, and they could meet you at a place of your choosing, and it would take about 30 minutes.)
Would you sign up?
(ETA: Assume that all data held in databases was anonymized to protect privacy.)
(ETA: Assume that all data held in databases was anonymized to protect privacy.)
You're joking about that last part, right? I don't assume that anything the government collects and stores is safe or anonymized.
I'm also guessing that the Electronic Medical Records used to store everything now would be accessible to the government- they'd have to sift through a lot but could pretty much get anything they wanted.
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My Medicare-United Health does this. I am on pre-diabete2, BP, thinner, cholesterol and heart medications.
I play along because they will continually call me to do the survey. I eat healthy and exercise with BMI=26. But I have always high BP since college days.
I dunno. I've been participating in psychiatric and other surveys since 9/11, mostly through Columbia. I've already received notice that the database was hacked. I figure that if I ever need to kill somebody, this way the government already has proof that I have a psychiatric history, so I can plead insanity.
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