HR 1313 is a travesty. It guts previous protections passed by Congress intended to protect the most fundamentally personal information any human possesses — their own genetic code. It would allow corporations to share that data with third parties for analysis without stripping it of identifying information (GINA forbids this, but 1313 supersedes GINA). It would allow companies to levy fines up to 30% of the cost of health premiums on the employees who fail to cooperate. The ASHG notes that the average premium cost for employees in 2016 was $18,142, meaning families could face an additional $5,443 in premium costs per year for refusing to hand over their genetic and health information.
Of course this article seems written with a bias in favor of GINA in specific. GINA is the genetic information nondiscrimination act. Of course if employers can screen genetically, for what benefit could this be to shareholders? In some cases it could make sense for employers to want to know how much potential value an employee can bring to shareholders and sometimes you can learn from genetic conditions which employees are vulnerable to illness. On the other hand we have a very immature understanding of genetics and we don't know why companies need to be able to share this information.
Wow, I don't like where this is heading.
This it's not fair
try to take my blood and yours will be splattered on the wall behind you
and ur body in a pool of ur blood on the floor
this is interesting. Who is going to pay for the testing?
Nobody should be able to force anybody to take any kind of test.
Your genetic information is yours and no one else's.
Says who?
myself, genetic information is part of your property and is part of your privacy
I agree totally with you on this, that you can decide for yourself, and I can decide for myself.
But if dumb people are giving permission to do it, it is their body, their privacy, their choice.
And there are a lot of those people I'm afraid.
Edit; I sometimes have the feeling as if I'm living in east gemany or in communistic russia or under nazi regime, but then with a nice shiny fineer on it, where most people can't see through. Even if they know what happened in those places, they don't see it, it goes so gradually, that things that were unimaginable ten years ago, are implemented without problem. Try to wake people up..... it's just impossible.
(Well sometimes they do.)
r u a retard
im talking to u dana