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A comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA. Parent comment

Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by lostlogin on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:52AM (#38084036)
> Of course not. This is how perverse insurance works. Proper insurance systems work by pooling risks into large groups so that the few who are unlucky to have problems at a given point in time are covered.

Have you just described socialised healthcare?

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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by piperswe on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:01PM (#38102239)
Socialized healthcare is insurance, so I guess?
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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by ekianjo on Friday November 03, 2023 @08:04AM (#38127470)
> Have you just described socialised healthcare?

No just regular insurance before insurance companies figured out they could make more profits by making individual customization, which should be completely forbidden by regulations in the first place.

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