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Whoever was the brains behind this ought to be first in line for a genetic test and then they undergo a mental test.
I want all elected officials to be forced to take an IQ test, with all results made public.
I’m about fed up with the constant “1984” stuff being pushed. I don’t care who does it; Big Government or Big Business or both... the result is the same.
Technology is making all this possible, if not inevitable. Everything from sports to the right to privacy is being affected. Do we have the wisdom or ability to control it? Mary Shelley was perhaps more prescient than we thought.
Insanity. This is not “voluntary” when you are punished by hundreds or thousands of dollars to decline the test.
Shades of Gattica.
PEWP? The PEWP Act? Are they serious?
I assume this means DNA testing, and of course the information will be available to law enforcement so that if you left genetic material at a crime scene it may be found and compared so that you are incriminated, even if you were not at the scene when the crime was committed.
Like all health “tyrannies” they start w/smokers.
Actually, in this case, smokers and obese.
Under commie care, smokers and obese are not considered “well” and can get a surcharge.
Some employers, including some state governments, place surcharges on the insurance premium for smokers and obese.
Not many have a problem w/that because, as far as most are concerned, the smokers and obese deserve it.
Now that that’s settled, it’s time to move on to discriminate on a health and lifestyle basis in other regards.
Sort of like how the tobacco excise tax is growing into fat and sugar taxes.
As the song goes, “First they came for the communists...”
Once you’ve open the door to discriminate in this fashion for smokers and obese, it’s pretty hard to defend NOT doing for any other risk pool.
Only a matter of time.
Oh, good, another statist bill to invade our privacy.
Yeah, like the income tax.
My company has had biometric screenings for a few years under the guise that the employee can get discounted insurance rates. I personally think they do it to see who may have chronic illnesses coming and those will be the ones they target for layoffs. I’ve never subjected myself to the screening. Hopefully it won’t be mandatory in the next two years and I will be retired by then.
That little fourth amendment thingy is such a bother.
Which is absurdly ironic...
I paid good money for a most respected and expensive genetic profile, because I was adopted and have no meaningful family medical history.
Obama's Department of Health or some such prohibited the genetics company from revealing what I paid the company to find out.
It's been a year and a half...
Crap, I couldn’t take being an employee 16 years ago, so stayed working for myself. Sounds like it’s more or less a coins concentration camp type setup now. Effing tyrants.