"Bottom line? If Congress passes this law, it will be opening the door to state-sanctioned health discrimination. And if employers can get and act upon workers’ private health information, everyone will be in trouble, not just mutants like me. The overweight, pregnant, diabetics, people with high blood pressure or poor exercise habits — all could potentially be penalized."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Showing posts with label concerns re potential state-sanctioned health discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concerns re potential state-sanctioned health discrimination. Show all posts
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me; New York Times, March 23, 2017
Louise Aronson, New York Times; Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me
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