Talk:Genetic discrimination

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Additional Healthcare Discrimination
May be important to include Trump-Era attempts to allow genetic discrimination on the basis of pre-existing conditions. Upon trying to declare the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, unconstitutional, laws banning the discrimination and exclusion of individuals from healthcare or increased premiums due to pre-existing conditions would be repealed. It was a place of contention and stress, and poorly received by the approximate 70% of Americans that wanted existing conditions protections to remain. As many as 130 million US adults under age 65 have pre-existing conditions, accounting for a large amount of individuals who could have been denied from private insurances. Prior to the implementation of the ACA, 43 US states allowed upcharges for pre-existing conditions. Markups can range from thousands to tens of thousands of additional premiums per annum, depending on the condition. Additionally, pre-existing conditions qualify genetic predispositions that have no physically presented.

Sources: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/618263772/trump-administration-move-imperils-pre-existing-condition-protections https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/news/2017/04/21/431019/premium-increases-pre-existing-conditions-latest-aca-repeal-plan-state/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2018/11/05/defining-pre-existing-conditions-in-an-era-of-genetic-testing/ jemappellecaitlinJemappellecaitlin (talk) 17:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Theworldisnotflat (talk) 18:45, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Laws elsewhere
You mention laws in other countries, which countries and what do their laws say?

Some text in this article was originally taken from http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/info=genetic_testing/show/alltopics (public domain)

JAMA Vol. 300 No. 3, July 16, 2008 has a commentary entitled European Practices of Genetic Information and Insurance...basically, Europeans have had the laws for a while, but they're sort of useless based on technicalities. II | (t - c) 11:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Hi, the page "Genism" also covers the same topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genism

A merger might be sensible. Bucoli (talk) 15:58, 6 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree in the opposite direction. Merge Genetic Discrimination into Genism. -76.121.251.142 (talk) 23:15, 7 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Genism/genoism is an uncommon neologism for genetic discrimination. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 17:27, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Someone redirected the Genism article here without merging.
Please merge the information from the other artcile in to make this article more complete. Remember this is an encyclopedia and it is important to get as complete an overview as possible. Thanks.-Rainbowofpeace (talk) 22:32, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * There was nothing there that seemed worth merging to me. If you disagree, the entire article history is still there at the redirect and you can merge whatever seems to you to be relevant to here.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 22:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

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Adding Sources, Expanding Examples of Genetic Discrimination in Other Countries, and Intersectionality Section
We will be fact-checking sources and adding new sources when necessary to improve this article. Additioanlly, we will provide examples of Genetic Discrimination in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Finally, it is important to mention the intersectionality of genetic discrimination, therefore we will be adding this section to the page. Lyoflo1 (talk) 21:37, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree that it's important to mention intersectionality, but the current section is extremely confusing. I'm not an expert on intersectionality or genoism, so I can't offer to rewrite it. ThePedanticPrick (talk) 01:44, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Added brief clarification about GINA with a citation. Katelynneller (talk) 15:18, 17 October 2019 (UTC)User:Katelynneller


 * I removed the references to the blogpost by Ewan Birney. This is not a reliable source by Wikipedia standards (WP:RS). AndewNguyen (talk) 06:06, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Expanding race and genetic discrimination section
Hi! I worked on expanding what was covered in the section that was previously called "race and genetics" and is now known as "race and genetic discrimination." Another wiki article "race and genetics" describes their intersection quite well, but there is still much to say about how discrimination plays in. I only had time to begin elucidating many related topics, but they deserve more attention. Negative health outcomes based upon genetic discrimination and race, genomic biobanks, and genetic genealogy projects could greatly benefit from further information if you are looking for a place to start. Many thanks! Sh1539 (talk) 15:20, 27 April 2021 (UTC)