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GINA prohibits health insurance companies from using genetics to deny coverage or set premiums.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/g...




I'd feel a lot better with customer-centric privacy protections around the collector and storer, a la HIPAA.

Instead of regulating only some of the uses.

HHS already had to administratively extend to cover gaps (we'll see how that goes, post-Chevron) and Congress attempted to repeal it for workplace purposes in 2017.

And there's still the gray market question about 23andme -> Equifax-alike packaging it into a blended proprietary risk score -> insurance companies using that (of course 'without knowing that genetic information was included').




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