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HNer gets mad at the idea of those with genetic diseases affecting insurance companies' profits even slightly, calls them out as the damn fraudsters they are (news.ycombinator.com)
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[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

If you know that you have an illness, and don't tell your insurance company, then you're a fraudster. If you know you have a genetic predisposition to illness, that's no different.

Discrimination is not inherently a bad thing.

it’s always fucking unsettling when the orange site goes almost entirely mask off about how they consider folks with hereditary diseases to be genetically inferior (and it happens a lot)