The same policy for assigning housing or employment would run afoul of federal racial discrimination laws. I propose that those laws should be extended to make

The same policy for assigning housing or employment would run afoul of federal racial discrimination laws. I propose that those laws should be extended to make racial factors in medical treatment illegal as well. Just as employment discrimination has exceptions (is permitted) in the case of bona fide job requirements (eg. it is permissible to hire an actress to play a historical character with a requirement that the actress be able to visually match the race of the historical individual), so too would we need exceptions for bona fide medical relevance. For instance, it makes no sense to give people-of-color preference in screening for sickle cell anemia, but it does make sense to give preference to people whose ancestors are from a group known to carry the gene.