SUPPORT NEW LAWS TO BAN GENETIC DISCRIMINATION OF AUSTRALIANS

SUPPORT NEW LAWS TO BAN GENETIC DISCRIMINATION OF AUSTRALIANS

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Genetic discrimination in Australian life insurance is legal and could be costing lives

Take action to support laws to ban genetic discrimination

Genetic testing saves lives, especially for preventable or treatable conditions like cancer and heart disease. Genetic testing can also provide diagnoses and inform treatment for thousands of different conditions

But life insurers are allowed to use genetic results to decline cover or increase the cost of premiums. Some people choose not to have potentially life-saving genetic testing or participate in research because of discrimination fears. 

Read about the Honor family's story here (pictured below). 

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Genetic discrimination in Australian life insurance is legal and could be costing lives

Take action to support laws to ban genetic discrimination

Genetic testing saves lives, especially for preventable or treatable conditions like cancer and heart disease. Genetic testing can also provide diagnoses and inform treatment for thousands of different conditions

But life insurers are allowed to use genetic results to decline cover or increase the cost of premiums. Some people choose not to have potentially life-saving genetic testing or participate in research because of discrimination fears. 

Read about the Honor family's story here (pictured below). 

At the moment, the life insurance industry sets its own rules. The partial moratorium that the industry introduced in 2019 doesn't go far enough to stop genetic discrimination.

The final report of a research study led by Monash University recommended that the Australian Government should ban life insurers from using genetic test results to discriminate. Read the report here. 

Your support is criticial to ensuring that Australia has adequate consumer protections against genetic discrimination, and improving access to life-saving genetic testing for everyone.

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Send an email to your Federal MP and Senators, asking them to support a ban on genetic discrimination

Right now, the Australian Government is considering recommendations to ban genetic discrimination in life insurance. On 4/9/23, a motion about this issue was introduced to Parliament by Josh Burns MP, Chair, Human Rights Committee. 

The more emails your Federal MPs receive, the more they will realise it is important to Australians in their electorate! 

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