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Lifestyle choices could raise your health insurance rates

Health insurance providers are paying data brokers to find personal information about their clients -- race, marital status, ability to pay bills and more -- to predict client health costs. But unlike medical records, there aren’t any laws that regulate how insurers can use the information. ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, who wrote a series on the issue with NPR, joins Hari Sreenivasan.