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Bill to block use of casual genetic testing passes to House

Katie KazimirGovernment, Headlines

Insurance companies won’t be able to increase life insurance rates based on results from recreational genetic tests if House Bill 286, makes it through the General Assembly and is signed into law. The House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to release the bill, known as the Ericka Byler Act, to the full House for a vote. Under …

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Bill would block insurance companies from using genetic tests

Katie KazimirGovernment, Headlines

For decades, public health officials have fretted about insurance companies having access to  genetic testing and using the results to deny coverage or set higher rates for people likely to get certain diseases. That was true even before people could casually send in a swab to a company like 23andme, AncestryDNA or Family TreeDNA, to be tested.  Those results end …