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>I am not an US citizen, I am not affected by it

Being in Germany, you are already in fully socialized medicine, so any battle for privacy of health records is already lost.

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I don't currently know. The socialized medicine is not the problem. We once had a system, that the full records where hidden from the health funds. But I think, recently this principle was weakened -- but not because of "socialized medicine" but just because of the infamous "electronic health card" -- governments like to play with new technical gadgets (that bring more costs and bureaucracy and no gain).

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