[HM2Viking]

The United States Senate has unanimously passed legislation banning discrimination on the basis of people's genetic details.
The proposal, which passed 95-0, still needs approval from the House of Representatives before it becomes law.
It would allow only patients and their doctors to access data obtained through genetic testing.
Employers, unions and health insurance companies would be forbidden from discrimination via genetic information. The Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy called it the "the first new civil rights bill of the new century".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7366264.stm

[marikat534]

So does this mean that if your family has history of some possible genetically linked disease they can't discriminate?

[HM2Viking]

Thats the plan is to protect people from genetic discrimination

[HeroicLife]

The primary consequence of this law will be more uninsured people and needless deaths.

See "Genetic Discrimination Saves Lives"