Guess who was the only congressman today to vote against the Ban of Genetic Discrimination?
Posted May 2nd, 2008 by soule
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I don't know the details yet but I am pretty sure that the good Dr. has a strong reason.
Remember:
"They always attach "clauses/Loopholes" to legislations that sound to be good legislations"
Reuters reported this today: http://www.reuters.com/ar...
Congress Votes to Ban Genetic Discrimination
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Congress has now passed legislation to forbid employers and insurance companies of "discriminating" against people on the basis of information gleaned from tests of their genetic proclivity for disease. I haven't studied this in depth, but forbidding the marketplace to use valid information rubs me the wrong way.
Wouldn't the use of such information allow people with fewer genetic risk factors to obtain less expensive (and more accurately priced) insurance? How is this different from charging smokers more for health insurance? Is just that smoking is voluntary but we refuse to use information caused by involuntary factors?
Calling it genetic "discrimination" is in itself discriminatory/conclusory. Perhaps offering discounts to those without known genetic risk factors would serve to encourage people to get the tests -- and if they tested positive, they'd be better prepared to take protective action where possible.
I guess I'm in minority on this issue, though: No Senators voted against the bill, and the vote in the House was 414-1, with only Rep. Ron Paul opposed.
Jeff Stier is an associate director of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH.org, HealthFactsAndFears.com).
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let me guess
his initials are RP
You don't know why he voted no?
It's called the Constitution.
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Here is the companion bill - just when you thought this was good
National “DNA warehouse” bill passes
Posted May 1st, 2008
Sickening news, this is the ultimate
violation of a human's privacy!
They are already injecting newborns
with tracking chips, I suspect..
http://www.jonesreport.co...
AAPS News of the Day | April 28, 2008
Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase, president of the Citizen’s Council on Health Care (CCHC). “The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research,” she states. “It does not require consent and there are no requirements to inform parents about the warehousing of their child’s DNA for the purpose of genetic research.
Already, in Minnesota, the state health department reports that 42,210 children of the 780,000 whose DNA is housed in the Minnesota ‘DNA warehouse’ have been subjected to genetic research without their parents’ knowledge or consent.”
The federal government lacks the Constitutional authority as well as the competence to develop a newborn screening program, states Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX). He states that all hospitals will probably scrap their own newborn testing program and adopt the federal model, whatever its flaws, to avoid the loss of federal funding.
“Drafters of the legislation made no effort to ensure that these newborn screening programs do not violate the privacy rights of parents and children,” Dr. Paul noted.
Contact the President to Veto this bill.
I posted about this bill a
I posted about this bill a week or so ago and very few people were interested.
The bill is outrageous. It mandates the genetic testing and tracking of all newborn children in the US.
This is very dangerous ground -- the thin edge of the wedge.
Oh, and I think it's a different bill than the one talked about above. You should post it as a new topic.
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