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by kvinnako 4582 days ago
Worrying about insurance companies being broke and not offering insurance is absurd. If they can't make the business model work, I am sure someone smarter will figure out a way to make the model work. That might not be you and me and the middle manager business suits at insurance company but someone will. But holding/banning the ability to know the truth about ourselves just to save some insurance business model is not right.
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I agree. Even if we wanted to, it would be impossible to stop people from discovering their genetic data. But you do have to worry about how this affects insurance. Insurance companies won't go broke, but they might stop offering insurance to people.

Thinking about how to prevent such a potential inequality seems essential to me.