{"id":9280,"date":"2018-05-14T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=ce7e5f1dc226eb8a8acc1a913107ec58"},"modified":"2018-05-14T04:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:00:01","slug":"door-will-open-to-genetic-discrimination-if-act-protecting-canadians-is-overturned-genomics-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/door-will-open-to-genetic-discrimination-if-act-protecting-canadians-is-overturned-genomics-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Door will open to genetic discrimination if act protecting Canadians is overturned, genomics expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src='https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3775549.1474632121!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_460\/health-sequencing.jpg' alt='HEALTH-SEQUENCING\/' width='460' title='Molecular Genetics Technical Specialist Jaime Wendt looks at a slide containing DNA at the Human and Molecular Genetics Center Sequencing Core at  the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 9, 2014. Once strictly the domain of research labs, gene-sequencing tests increasingly are being used to help understand the genetic causes of rare disease, putting insurance companies in the position of deciding whether to pay the $5,000 to $17,000 for the tests. Genetics experts say that sequencing more than doubles the chances that families get a diagnosis, and saves spending on multiple tests of single genes. Even if no treatment is found, the tests can also end hugely expensive medical odysseys as parents frantically search for the cause of their child&#39;s furtive illness. Picture taken May 9, 2014. To match Insight HEALTH-SEQUENCING\/REUTERS\/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH SOCIETY BUSINESS) - RTR3UN3X' height='259' \/>                <\/p>\n<p>A genomics and policy researcher with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael&#8217;s Hospital in Toronto says the health and personal freedom of patients will be at risk if a challenge by the government of Quebec to Canada&#8217;s year-old Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (GNA) is successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                        A genomics and policy researcher with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael&#8217;s Hospital in Toronto says the health and personal freedom of patients will be at risk if a challenge by the gove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9281,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions\/9281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}