Grocery loyalty card purchases surveilled by insurance companies to raise rates and deny claims

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Natural News:

(NaturalNews) I warned Natural News readers about this years ago: those grocery store "loyalty cards" that they push on you to enjoy discounts on groceries are actually a behavior surveillance technology that's used to capture and profile your grocery purchasing patterns. This data is then sold off toinsurance companies who use it to raise your rates by linking your grocery purchases with the risk of disease.

 

Buying a lot of ice cream? You're more likely to be obese and diabetic.

 

Purchasing a lot of processed meats and homogenized milk? You're more likely to develop cardiovascular disease.

 

Bringing home a lot of processed food with additives, chemical sweeteners and chemical preservatives? You're far more likely to get cancer.

 

Health insurance companies are now using this data to develop these sorts of "risk profiles" of individual consumers. And it's all enabled because people are so incredibly obedient that they actually fill out their real names and addresses on these grocery loyalty cards. Health insurance companies simply use credit reporting databases to link your grocery loyalty card account number to your health insurance account number, and from there, your insurance rates can be adjusted based on what you buy to eat.

 

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A while ago, while working for an auto insurance company in the south (IT dept)..... on the message boards over the Claims "Customer Care Center" before the shift began scrolled these words: "DENY...DENY...DENY".

 

Insurance companies are not in the business to pay out claims or to assist the insured. They are in business to collect premiums, invest the $$ received, and enlarge their profits.

 

Period.

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A while ago, while working for an auto insurance company in the south (IT dept)..... on the message boards over the Claims "Customer Care Center" before the shift began scrolled these words: "DENY...DENY...DENY".

 

Insurance companies are not in the business to pay out claims or to assist the insured. They are in business to collect premiums, invest the $$ received, and enlarge their profits.

 

Period.

 

 

Yes?

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A while ago, while working for an auto insurance company in the south (IT dept)..... on the message boards over the Claims "Customer Care Center" before the shift began scrolled these words: "DENY...DENY...DENY".

 

Insurance companies are not in the business to pay out claims or to assist the insured. They are in business to collect premiums, invest the $$ received, and enlarge their profits.

 

Period.

 

 

Yes?

A while ago, while working for an auto insurance company in the south (IT dept)..... on the message boards over the Claims "Customer Care Center" before the shift began scrolled these words: "DENY...DENY...DENY".

 

Insurance companies are not in the business to pay out claims or to assist the insured. They are in business to collect premiums, invest the $$ received, and enlarge their profits.

 

Period.

 

 

Yes?

 

I too worked for two of the largest auto insurance firms in claims. Never once did I ever hear anything like that. If any state ins. commissioner ever caught wind of that, the company would have hell to pay.

[Valin]

A while ago, while working for an auto insurance company in the south (IT dept)..... on the message boards over the Claims "Customer Care Center" before the shift began scrolled these words: "DENY...DENY...DENY".

 

Insurance companies are not in the business to pay out claims or to assist the insured. They are in business to collect premiums, invest the $$ received, and enlarge their profits.

 

Period.

 

 

Yes?

A while ago, while working for an auto insurance company in the south (IT dept)..... on the message boards over the Claims "Customer Care Center" before the shift began scrolled these words: "DENY...DENY...DENY".

 

Insurance companies are not in the business to pay out claims or to assist the insured. They are in business to collect premiums, invest the $$ received, and enlarge their profits.

 

Period.

 

 

Yes?

 

I too worked for two of the largest auto insurance firms in claims. Never once did I ever hear anything like that. If any state ins. commissioner ever caught wind of that, the company would have hell to pay.

 

My point is the insurance companies (like all businesses) are in business to make a profit.