American worker, will you submit to Bill HR1313?

[BlacqueJacqueShellacqueParticipant 6890]

Bill 1313 – Allow companies to strong arm their employees to be genetically tested. These results would be shared with the employer and UNREGULATED Third parties. Resisting employees could face thousands of dollars in penalties.

This system is currently voluntary.

Starts at 4:27 through to 9:35.

The article they are referencing:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/companies-want-employees-genetic-info-new-bill-lets-them-take-it-by-force/

The Bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1313

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

I believe genetic discrimination is already considered a form of discrimination in the U.S.

This is why you do not see uniform genetic testing happening in the U.S.

Even if this is passed into law this will have a lawsuit on unconstitutional grounds and those supporting the bill are eugenic nazis.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Faust For Science wrote:

I believe genetic discrimination is already considered a form of discrimination in the U.S.

This is why you do not see uniform genetic testing happening in the U.S.

Even if this is passed into law this will have a lawsuit on unconstitutional grounds and those supporting the bill are eugenic nazis.

That’s a lot of faith in govt!

[MuglintarParticipant 1333]

WTF??? This is serious, yes?

unlimited tihrd parties as well as your employer? That means litterally everyone who ever is taking a job or has been taking a job in college or something would be screened for genetic abnormalities (increased cancer propobility, diabetes, heart disease, probability of handicapped children…). Now combine this knowledge with a “dead peasant” insurance strategy and you have litterally the license to print money. Vast ammounts of money translate easily into political influence. So one could gain political influence (e.g. power) by this knowledge of (and on the expense of) the health of his working personell.

sounds pretty much like a George Orwell plot, doesn’t it?

"Him, who delights in solitude, is either a wild beast or a GOD!" - Aristotle (Aristot. Pol. 1.1253a) 1 Hom. Il. 9.63; the passage goes on: ἐστὶν ἐκεῖνος ι ὃς πολέμου ἔραται.

[Anonymous 42]

The best god damned advice a lawyer ever gave me was VOLUNTEER NO INFORMATION. It hit me as hard as if GOD said it himself!

my advice is now the same and amended!

VOLUNTEER NO INFORMATION and when interrogated give nothing but evasive answers, BE PINED DOWN TO NOTHING!

[MagusParticipant 424]

Another reason to be your own boss and own your own business.

[WPLParticipant 2390]

I always opt out of voluntary “wellness” programs at work… however, for the last two years, they’ve hired a group of benefits consultants to try to cut health insurance costs. When they instituted this change, each employee had to sit down with a representative of the consulting group and answer a long list of invasive health questions, which the rep entered, one-by-one into a laptop computer. They assured us that the computer software was HIPAA-compliant. Ok, fine — but what about the goofball entering the responses into the computer? Those people now know as much as they care to remember about everybody’s medical conditions. Why not just have us respond directly on their “HIPAA-compliant” computers, without the middle-man? Refusal to participate = no insurance that year.

The woman interviewing me asked me what prescriptions I take. I replied truthfully: “none”. I could almost see the hamster in her brain working. She pressed again: “nothing for cholesterol or high blood pressure?” Again, my answer: none. I don’t know why this was so hard for her to believe.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

HIPAA is bulls~~~. There is no privacy in this country anymore. It is all bulls~~~.

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