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? Drugmakers are not the problem. Insurrance is. The bad teeth everyone has in the family? Uninsurable for all your descendants. The mental problems some dev
by sparrowInHand 3y ago
? Drugmakers are not the problem.
Insurrance is.
The bad teeth everyone has in the family?
Uninsurable for all your descendants. The mental problems some developed? No coverage of that in life-insurrance - forever for all descendants carrying the genes.
More then average aggression as a teenager? Presume your kids on some invisible watchlist.
You are already living in a invisible Gattaca.
- prepend 3y agoIn the US it’s illegal to use dna data for health insurance [0], or employment. So if insurance is using this data it could be pretty rough for the insurers and 23andme. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimination_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
- asne11 3y agodoes legality of a thing prevent big pharma from doing the thing?
- marcinzm 3y agoPharma is not insurance.
- koheripbal 3y agoBig pharma does not run insurance
- prepend 3y agoThis law is unrelated to big pharma, but I think the answer is “yes, but pharma follows the law.” Or at least the law as they interpret it. Look at the opioid madness and even with that, I think big pharma was being Lawful Evil. Once the law is determined, I think they follow it. Even though they lobby to change it.
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoInsurance companies could directly ask for DNA if they don't care about legality. And in return they could easily offer say 90% discount to 90% of the people.
- sparrowInHand 3y agoYou actually do not need to ask the insurred ones. You need a family member that is with another insurrance company and conclude from there?
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoAll I am saying is insurance companies could ask and people will happily give their DNA for say 90% discount(which I think they could easily provide). They don't need family members or any other things or any other backdoor.
- Cub3 3y agoIt was illegal in the movie Gattaca too, but they explained it by suggesting companies / insurance will just invisibly discriminate anyway which I think is most likely where this will end up in the real world
- _heimdall 3y agoIts amazing how quickly sentiment shifted from despising the Sackler family and big pharma in general to raining free government money on big pharma and claiming they aren't a problem. That's one hell of an impressive PR turn around honestly. Don't get me wrong insurance companies are a problem too, I just can't let pharma off the hook.