Ms. Cham and Mr. Poston, you said earlier that a patient’s medical information should not be used for purposes other than research. Mr. Poston, you used the word “inappropriate”.
Do you not find it difficult to distinguish one from the other? Some companies use and collect medical information. They share part of it with university groups for research and sell some to private enterprise for market studies, I suppose. That would surely be useful. They probably want to know what kind of medications they could sell more of.
Do you not think it difficult to categorize these things? What constitutes “going over the line”? Do you know?