Insurance companies should be allowed to use genetic testing before giving someone health or life insurance.

Insurance companies should be allowed to use genetic testing before giving someone health or life insurance.
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Scientists found out that every human has 30000 genes. In these genes are all information saved which decide our personality, abilities, affinities, strengths, weaknesses, resistances against deceases and risks of getting certain illnesses. Genetic testing is a possibility to readout and to rate these information. This method of analysing a person makes it possible to say how likely it is that this person will cost an insurance company more than the person will pay in. The consequence of that would bring about numerous changes in our society. If insurance companies would get genetic information about the person who wants to ensure himself, then they could ...