Genetic testing and the future of disability insurance: ethics, law & policy. Export

@article{Wolf2007, abstract = {Predictive genetic testing poses fundamental questions for disability insurance, a crucial resource funding basic needs when disability prevents income from work. This article, from an NIH-funded project, presents the first indepth analysis of the challenging issues: Should disability insurers be permitted to consider genetics and exclude predicted disability? May disabilities with a recognized genetic basis be excluded from coverage as pre-existing conditions? How can we assure that private insurers writing individual and group policies, employers, and public insurers deal competently and appropriately with genetic testing?}, author = {Wolf, Susan and Kahn, Jeffrey}, citeulike-article-id = {1722438}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17543053&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2007.00148.x}, doi = {10.1111/j.1748-720X.2007.00148.x}, journal = {The Journal of law, medicine \& ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine \& Ethics}, keywords = {disability-insurance, genetic-testing, insurance, legislation-and-jurisprudence}, month = {xx}, pages = {6--32}, posted-at = {2007-10-03 04:41:30}, priority = {2}, title = {Genetic testing and the future of disability insurance: ethics, law \& policy.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2007.00148.x}, volume = {35}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - Wolf2007 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1722438 N2 - Predictive genetic testing poses fundamental questions for disability insurance, a crucial resource funding basic needs when disability prevents income from work. This article, from an NIH-funded project, presents the first indepth analysis of the challenging issues: Should disability insurers be permitted to consider genetics and exclude predicted disability? May disabilities with a recognized genetic basis be excluded from coverage as pre-existing conditions? How can we assure that private insurers writing individual and group policies, employers, and public insurers deal competently and appropriately with genetic testing? JF - The Journal of law, medicine \& ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine \& Ethics EP - 32 TI - Genetic testing and the future of disability insurance: ethics, law \& policy. VL - 35 SP - 6 KW - disability-insurance KW - genetic-testing KW - insurance KW - legislation-and-jurisprudence AU - Wolf, Susan AU - Kahn, Jeffrey PY - 2007/xx// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2007.00148.x ER -