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In 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 an
by prepend 3y ago
In 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