Re House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Thomas Lord <lord () basiscraft com>
> Date: March 10, 2017 at 4:41:13 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results
>
> This bit of snark made me chuckle but then raised a
> question:
>
> > We need genetic testing of these GOP politicians
> > and their supporters, to help us separate those
> > animals from human beings.
>
> I would be very interested in hearing some forensic
> analysis from and also about the investors and
> founders who pioneered the cheerful commercialization
> of on-demand, cheap genetic testing.
>
> That project of commercialization, and the discourse
> used to promote it,  is surely what
> added genetic testing to how capitalists think about
> managing workforces, and how police and politicians
> think about managing populations.   It is surely
> from those commercialization efforts that the legislative
> impulse originates.
>
> Did people believe dystopian applications like that
> now before us were inevitable or that they could be
> avoided?  Did investors invest in preventing this
> situation?  or mediating it? Do they see this as a
> step towards utopia?  Or will they attempt to disrupt
> what is now unfolding?
>
> Now that we are approaching "GATTACA" (the movie)
> scenarios, are any of the same people who brought
> us here questioning how they can help dismantle
> the power relations that are poised to make this
> technology quite malevolent?
>
>
> -t
>
>
>
>
> > On 2017-03-10 08:50, dfarber wrote:
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > FROM: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> > SUBJECT: [ NNSQUAD ] HOUSE REPUBLICANS WOULD LET EMPLOYERS DEMAND WORKERS' GENETIC TEST RESULTS
> > DATE: March 10, 2017 at 11:30:56 AM EST
> > TO: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> > House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results
> > https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/10/workplace-wellness-genetic-testing/
> > Giving employers such power is now prohibited by legislation
> > including the 2008 genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law
> > known as GINA. The new bill gets around that landmark law by
> > stating explicitly that GINA and other protections do not
> > apply when genetic tests are part of a "workplace wellness"
> > program.  The bill, HR 1313, was approved by a House committee
> > on Wednesday, with all 22 Republicans supporting it and all 17
> > Democrats opposed. It has been overshadowed by the debate over
> > the House GOP proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable
> > Care Act, but the genetic testing bill is expected to be
> > folded into a second ACA-related measure containing a grab-bag
> > of provisions that do not affect federal spending, as the main
> > bill does.
> > - - -
> > We need genetic testing of these GOP politicians and their supporters, to
> > help us separate those animals from human beings.
> > --Lauren--
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