Re:$1,000 Personal Genome Coming: Are We Ready?
by simplify on Friday April 30, 2010 @12:26PM
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Who's going to pay for the curing of these diseases? Insurance companies? I'm sure the more popular diseases will become cheap enough for anyone to afford, but who's to say insurance companies won't deny you coverage to an uncommon disease based on the information your genome gives?
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Re:$1,000 Personal Genome Coming: Are We Ready?
by AngryParsley on Friday April 30, 2010 @04:02PM
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There's already a law preventing insurance companies and employers from discriminating based on genetics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimi...