4/7/2017 2 Comments Gene testing passesAs many may know, there has been a lot of controversy going on in congress with the bill for repealing and replacing the afordable care act, and replacing it with the republican administration's AHCA, or also known as the afordable health care act. None the less, there was also another, possibly even more important bill that passed, HR1313. This bill goes around the 2008 bill for genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law known as GINA. This bill gets around that by adding it as part of the companies wellness programs, that allow them to require employees to give in to mandatory genetic testing, and to release other health related information.
Now, this is not all done without fair reason. Benefits for the company also tend to overflow into the overall general health of the workforce. That means that due to the initial screening from the employer, they technically are able to keep a more healthy workforce by simply not hiring or charging an excess for those employees who carry a less healthy life. I personally feel that this is extremely discriminating, and since gene testing is not entirely accurate, they may be missing and getting a lot of false positives during the testing. Furthermore, it has been shown that genetic screening does not in fact improve the overall health of benefit the employees at all SOURCE. So for me, this entire bill seems like very much a money grab for the business side of things. SOURCE
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Sean O'Fallon
5/9/2017 03:27:38 pm
I completely agree with you, I think it's horrible that companies would be able to do some type of genetic testing on people before hiring them. I understand why they would want to do this as a money saving opportunity, but it just feels wrong.
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Cammron Keehley
5/23/2017 09:26:34 pm
Hey Martin,
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