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Re:Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve by prepend on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @07:30AM (#17916941)
The law change for direct access to lab ordering and results is really independent of Theranos. HHS changes rules in 2014 to allow patient access [0] that goes back almost 20 years.

The price listing was pretty cool though.

[0] http://www.labtestingmatters.org/direct-access-to-test-resul...

Re:Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve by arcticbull on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @01:04PM (#17919877)
It’s also not clear that it’s a good thing; false positives lead to serious negative consequences which is why tests aren’t ordered in the first place. It’s why you don’t get a colonoscopy at 25: chance_of_false_positive * harm_of_false_positive > chance_of_detection * treatment_success until much later in life. You as an individual are not qualified to make that aggregate decision.