Re:Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me
by vonmoltke on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:25AM
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The discrimination referenced in the article is not just about insurance costs. Even if health care costs were totally removed from employees they would still have reason to discriminate on genetic factors.
Private insurance companies and employers (the two places most Americans get their health insurance from) may not want to pay for the higher costs associated with higher risk people like this. Employers would be especially susceptible to this sort of discrimination if proposed legislation allowing employers to demand genetic tests of their employees passes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/0...