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Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill
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Re: Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill
#12We've got to separate healthcare from employers before this goes to far. Companies have no business in your health and we still tie health insurance to employment as a legacy error not a benefit. Many problems arise from healthcare provided from the job such as ageism, culling the sick, making it harder to change jobs or start companies, and losing healthcare as you change jobs, not to mention helping the fixed price / backroom market that is healthcare. We'll never fix anything until we unbind healthcare from employers and make it more consumer focused independently (single payer or completely independent/private).
We don't get any other personal insurance from work. We need to outlaw allowing companies to facilitate the healthcare plans and go fully independent like all other insurance (auto, home, life etc). Benefits can be paid in extra money not false benefits that lead to invasions of privacy.
Why would you want your company knowing anything about your health? We supposedly live in a free society but then work at mini feudal/sharecropper empires with dictators and barely any say in what is acceptable.
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#13It's simply insane to propose such a bill ... they may as well as people to sell body parts to cover healthcare costs ... it's simply not acceptable!
Re: Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill
#14Gattaca? I must say that I am extremely interested in the forthcoming genetic policy debate.
From the outside, this whole thing appears completely SNAFU.
It's right up there with gender/religion/race discrimination, but, everybody is discussing is calmly.
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#15Oh those liberals are coming for your guns!!! While these Repfucks silently fuck you from behind.
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#16Wow! I wonder how long it will be before genetic tests become as pedestrian as finger prints.
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#17This is severely fucked. Wellness programs do little or no good but do allow employers to offer incentives for participation. This on the other hand is GATTACA level fuckery. GINA took many years to be put in place; now the proposal put forward will potentially cause people to lose health coverage or their job based on things they cannot control. Potentially their kids, too, since these idiotic "wellness" programs ar…
In a world with mandatory genetic testing, genetic engineering in order to "give your child the best possible start" will definitely ring true.
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#18Modern-day nazis.
Re: Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill
#19We've got to separate healthcare from employers before this goes to far. Companies have no business in your health and we still tie health insurance to employment as a legacy error not a benefit. Many problems arise from healthcare provided from the job such as ageism, culling the sick, making it harder to change jobs or start companies, and losing healthcare as you change jobs, not to mention helping the fixed price…
I completely agree with your sentiment. “We don't get any other personal insurance from work” isn't quite true, though. Many companies include at least minimal life & disability insurance.
Re: Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill
#20We've got to separate healthcare from employers before this goes to far. Companies have no business in your health and we still tie health insurance to employment as a legacy error not a benefit. Many problems arise from healthcare provided from the job such as ageism, culling the sick, making it harder to change jobs or start companies, and losing healthcare as you change jobs, not to mention helping the fixed price…
The history behind our current nonsensical scheme started with FDR capping wages during the great depression, which spurred companies to offer "perks" like healthcare to recruit talent. An example of one market intervention leading to another, and another, ad nauseam.
Totally agree that insurance should be decoupled from corporations. The way the "market" is regulated hampers people from working independently or starting small businesses because it's so damn expensive for individuals to pay for healthcare themselves.