NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Medical Test, Genetic Discrimination, Genetic Testing
5 Mar 2018
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Depression, anxiety, and sadness experience this when they. Susceptibility likelihood to you getting a disease. Employers can see who would be the best for their job. Eg. if a job requires someone to be exposed to diseases the employer might see this as a way to hire someone who is less likely to be harmed by this and pick the best person. Genetic discrimination: not something you can change or control. These companies use it to to make assessments on what rate to charge you. They see how much risk they are in to harm themselves then see what rates to charge them. They can reject you or charge you astronomical amount that you (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:271)e a(cid:271)le to afford the insurance in the first place. This is another way genetic discrimination applies. The debate in u. s right now: pre-existing medicare.
