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BIG BIG slippery slope here and I'm glad you raised it. When it comes to insurance, "plausible deniability" is the best policy because they can deny coverage fo
by Quizz 14y ago
BIG BIG slippery slope here and I'm glad you raised it. When it comes to insurance, "plausible deniability" is the best policy because they can deny coverage for so many petty reasons. I believe Obamacare is supposed to address some of these issues, but not certain. Nevertheless, insurance companies would certainly move for genetic sequencing prior to issuing a policy at some point in the future, it just makes too much business sense for them. Which is why health insurance should be non-profit - to take away the profit motive that corrupts health care.
- cjbprime 14y agoNo. The US Congress already passed a Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act in 2008 that makes it illegal for insurance companies to do this. They won't take your genetic data even if you offer it to them.
- PotatoEngineer 14y agoEven a non-profit insurance company would want to know about your genetic sequence; if nothing else, it would help them predict how much money they need in order to treat you over the course of your lifetime.
- Evbn 14y agoParent probably meant to mean universal access, not nonprofit. Profit isn't really the issue. For profit insurance with universal access is totally workable