Politics It Might Soon Be Legal for Employers to Force You Into a Genetic Test

Genetics is only one piece. There are many health factors. If employers want healthy workers offer health insurance, gym membership, cafeteria with healthy food. Vacation time. Sick leave. Flu shot. Walking or cycling club. Scent free cleaning products. Natural light.

And stay out of our DNA.

 

Not the employers job, employer creates job, employees work for employer if they want the job & benefits offered.

Please everyone remember to create jobs that are not Gov jobs the employer has to make a profit or
no insurance or health club or, or, or, what is enough??
Gov is only one that can not worry about profit. Just raise taxes

Yes some big companies offer lots of benefits and pay, not many and others are ripping of the Gov

Bottom line how about major medical only, insurance should not cover all the small stuff.

 

I do not accept that you get to decide what portion of my health is small stuff.

 

As long as YOU pay for it, that is correct.

As a voting populace, we DO get to decide what portion of YOUR healthcare cost WE want to PAY for.

"Walking club"? Are you fucking serious?!!!

 

unless you didn't vote for him in the first place...

 

fuck insurance companies

 

there's a reason every other commercial is a goddamn insurance commercial and it's because insurance is the most profitable commodity out there and they can afford to blow billions on adverts. fuck insurance companies it should have never been made law that we have to give these fuckers money.

 

This is being presented as for employee health. Nonsense. Practically everybody has a "genetic predisposition" to SOMETHING. That rarely determines our health. You may have a predisposition to heart attack, but if you exercise, don't smoke, maintain weight, that counts for far more.
Everyone in my family has high cholesterol, even my brother who has been a total vegetarian for 30 years. We never have heart attacks or strokes, three of my four grandparents made it past 80, we just have genetic high cholesterol that sits there and apparently does nothing.
I mentioned things employers could do for health; some are expensive but many cost little to nothing, far less than genetic testing.

The sponsor, Rep Virginia Foxx, is one of the most anti-science and bigoted House members and that's saying a lot.

There are zero safeguards. Even if you just apply for a job they can take your DNA and no restrictions on with whom the company shares the information or what they do with it.

Just another Tea Party corporate giveaway. As much to do with health as the Muslim ban had to do with security.

 

We will if we stick together and not follow the piper.

 

Does this mean you finally wised up about Trump and have rehabilitated yourself?????

 

Well, employers have been requiring people to pass a physical exam for years now. But to take screening to this level, to select out the cream of the no risk prospects from the population
will require the pool of candidates to be really large. So only a few will pass the test for employment which means the population will need to be much larger than can be employed.
Self insured employers like most large corporations do not "buy" insurance and are not interested in charging varying prices for employee health insurance. But they might use this tactic to
screen potential employee, but only if more are available than they need.

How many people can our Nation support? How much can we grow before we need to begin to stop growth?

 

Ha! No, I was thinking more of the fucking mess we have for a health care system right now. The results of the last piper you all blessed.

 

Same as with Obamacare, Congress make the decisions on your healthcare, not the President.

Oregon voted to keep the same tired old swamprats that created Obamacare and drove healthcare prices through the stratosphere, and they will do their best to crush anything that decreases profits for their campaign donors, so you have nothing to worry about.

 

As my employer I consulted my employer and my employer insists I have no interest in forcing myself to turn over any genetic information to myself at any time.

Real Americans don't work for slave-owners.

 

Ha! Good line.

 

Real Americans don't have slaves.