{"id":42777,"date":"2009-11-16T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"024a2616-1162-4e86-b446-e5a4fd618e34"},"modified":"2009-11-16T09:09:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:09:22","slug":"coming-this-week-new-law-to-prevent-discrimination-based-on-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/42777","title":{"rendered":"Coming This Week: New Law To Prevent Discrimination Based On Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most important new antidiscrimination law in two decades \u2014 the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act \u2014 will take effect in the nation&#8217;s workplaces next weekend, prohibiting employers from requesting genetic testing or considering someone&#8217;s genetic background in hiring, firing or promotions,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/16\/business\/16genes.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" >The New York Times<\/a> reports. &#8220;The act also prohibits health insurers and group plans from requiring such testing or using genetic information \u2014 like a family history of heart disease \u2014 to deny coverage or set premiums or deductibles.&#8221; Employers and insurers would no longer be allowed to ask employees for their medical histories. Group health plans would also be banned from &#8220;the common practice of rewarding workers, often with lower premiums or one-time payments, if they give their family medical histories when completing health risk questionnaires.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new law (called GINA) was passed by Congress last year because many Americans feared that if they had a genetic test, their employers or health insurers would discriminate against them, perhaps by firing them or denying coverage.&#8221; Genetic tests can be used to &#8220;help determine whether someone is at risk of developing an inherited disease or medical condition&#8221; (Greenhouse, 11\/15).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/UpwuVdIZ9Bk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most important new antidiscrimination law in two decades \u2014 the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act \u2014 will take effect in the nation&#8217;s workplaces next weekend, prohibiting employers from requesting genetic testing or considering someone&#8217;s genetic background in hiring, firing or promotions,&#8221; The New York Times reports. &#8220;The act also prohibits health insurers and group plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}