Genetic Information and Health Insurance: State Legislative Approaches

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 23 (4):312-319 (1995)
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We may create a catch-22 so that only people who are unlikely to need health insurance can afford it.... Genetic risk testing is important because it exposes the logic of a system that provides access to health insurance to those least likely to need it.

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10.1111/j.1748-720x.1995.tb01373.x

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Genetics and the Moral Mission of Health Insurance.Thomas H. Murray - 1992 - Hastings Center Report 22 (6):12-17.

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