NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Medical Test, Genetic Discrimination, Genetic Testing
20 Feb 2020
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Economic argument - to see who is healthy or not; contributes to higher insurance costs. Can use information to choose the best person for the job. Employee: makes some people marketable for the job for testing negative. Genetic discrimination: don"t have control over these things. Some people denied of insurance or pay premium for genetic results. Benefit:bigger data pool, more analysis in terms of determining trends in the pool. Disadvantage for those who can not afford health care. Research and development for popular diseases, money allocated into that research. Pharmaceuticals create profit, preventative medicine: may prevent diseases, people are paying a lot of money placing hopes on it but does not do much. Genetic advantage suitable to engage in tasks; a super soldier. Biological genetic warfare; create weapons based on the traits. Medical test results are not always correct; false positive and false negative. Option 1 : take this information and keep the baby.
