There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
If you were checked for hereditary diseases (you were, as a part of this) and then actually develop any of those diseases later in life, insurance now has a surefire way to tell you to go kick rocks and die.
For now, as of this moment, that’s not likely the case for the vast majority of folks in the U.S. There are no guarantees that will be true in the future, or even 8 minutes from now. (Which, I note, is also in the future, but it establishes the scale of my expectations for the collapse of pro-social mores in the U.S.)
No word on folks who have broken healthcare systems in other parts of the world, however.
If you were checked for hereditary diseases (you were, as a part of this) and then actually develop any of those diseases later in life, insurance now has a surefire way to tell you to go kick rocks and die.
For now, as of this moment, that’s not likely the case for the vast majority of folks in the U.S. There are no guarantees that will be true in the future, or even 8 minutes from now. (Which, I note, is also in the future, but it establishes the scale of my expectations for the collapse of pro-social mores in the U.S.) No word on folks who have broken healthcare systems in other parts of the world, however.