To mark World Cancer Day, the European Commission published a joint statement by Health Commissioner Várhelyi and Financial Services Commissioner Albuquerque on the ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF).
The RTBF aims to end the discrimination cancer survivors face when accessing financial services. Survivors are often charged prohibitively high premiums or denied financial products such as loans or mortgages because of their medical history.
As the statement notes, Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan placed the RTBF high on the agenda and set the objective of agreeing a code of conduct on fair access for cancer survivors, alongside a longer-term solution, by 2023. This did not materialize….
