[awb]

Now it does, but it might not be this way in the future. Health insurance companies fought tooth and nail about covering pre-existing conditions. This is just going 1-step prior.

They could easily frame this as "hey 80% of the population who are pretty healthy -- do you like paying extra high rates for this small population of people with a predisposition for really rare, complicated diseases? if we drop this unfair law we could lower your rates by X%".

Not saying it's right or ethical, but that I wouldn't be shocked if healthcare started lobbying hard to get this tweaked.

[wahern]

Laws against murder can change, too. So what?

The interesting thing about modern genetics is that it turns out everybody has some elevated risk for some disease or condition, which means the vast majority of people have an interest in prohibiting genetic discrimination.