Re:Why 23andMe Terrifies Health Insurance Companies
by twoodfin on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @08:54AM
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I expect to see a bunch of people who don't disclose their 23andMe results and who then have their insurance cancelled.
In the post-ACA U.S. "rescission" like this is now illegal, short of actual fraud. And it would have been illegal prior to ACA in the case of genetic testing due to HIPPA and GINA. Not that rescission was ever nearly as common as reform proponents liked to suggest.[1]
In the post-ACA U.S. "rescission" like this is now illegal, short of actual fraud. And it would have been illegal prior to ACA in the case of genetic testing due to HIPPA and GINA. Not that rescission was ever nearly as common as reform proponents liked to suggest.[1]
[1] http://healthblog.ncpa.org/rescissions-much-ado-about-nothin...