Okay, I will make one last stab at showing why medical/health
insurance is different from other forms of insurance, then, unless
something really new appears, let it drop. I don't want to waste
anyone's time and it was not that important to me in the first place.
I have no love for any in
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Neil Johnson wrote:
> On Monday 07 July 2003 07:53 pm, Stormwalker wrote:
>
> >
> >Medical insurance is about maintenence of our lives. You do not
> >need to participate, but I'll bet if you get hurt, you'll head
> >to the
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Tim May wrote:
> > I have to disagree here. Medical insurance is not the same as life
> > or car insurance. It was all supposed to be a big pool that we would
> > draw on when needed. By skimmimng the cream, infant mortality rates
> > rise, along with a host of other pro
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> At 01:15 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Stormwalker wrote:
> >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> >> Interesting, thanks. Even a brother's daughter could be refused.
> >
> > The BRCA genes are only transmitted
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> Interesting, thanks. Even a brother's daughter could be refused.
The BRCA genes are only transmitted through the mother, but
there are many others that go through both lines.
> >Ethical issues have surfaced around the desire of the subject's
The issue of knowing about other people based on one subject's DNA
has been known for for several years. For example, if a a woman
has the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene (breast cancer), then so does her mother,
sister(s) and daughter(s) because the gene is hereditary. Insurance
companies can/have refused ins
