{"id":26199,"date":"2017-03-12T11:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T16:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26199"},"modified":"2017-03-12T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T16:47:51","slug":"wapo-employees-who-decline-genetic-testing-could-face-penalties-under-proposed-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26199","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2017\/03\/11\/employees-who-decline-genetic-testing-could-face-penalities-under-proposed-bill\/?utm_term=.d8e21d4b6737\">Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill<\/a> by Lena H. Sun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Employers could impose hefty penalties on employees who decline to participate in genetic testing as part of workplace wellness programs if a bill approved by a U.S. House committee this week becomes law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the Republican Party wants to invade our bodies for genetic testing? How will this be resolved under <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=3234257148722545343&#038;q=maryland+v+king&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=1006\">Maryland v. King<\/a> and the reasonable expectation of privacy in one&#8217;s own body? (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexis.com\/research\/retrieve?_m=0cee1c6ba4c299cd999484a6ec3efa62&#038;csvc=toc2doc&#038;cform=&#038;_fmtstr=FULL&#038;docnum=1&#038;_startdoc=1&#038;wchp=dGLbVzt-zSkAl&#038;_md5=2b618fa6ebf38be74496e17d1a866ab9\">Treatise \u00a7 32.17<\/a>) You want health insurance so we need to know your genetic makeup to price it or deny it? First women&#8217;s bodies, now everybody&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill by Lena H. Sun: Employers could impose hefty penalties on employees who decline to participate in genetic testing as part of workplace wellness programs if a bill approved &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26201,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199\/revisions\/26201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}