Call to legislate genetic discrimination ban

In September last year, the Australian Government announced it would introduce legislation to ban the use of adverse genetic test results in life insurance underwriting — an announcement that would effectively end the industry’s ability to discriminate against consumers based on genetic testing. However, as the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has said in a recent statement, this has still not occurred.

The AMA statement follows a joint submission developed by the public health genomics team, led by Dr Jane Tiller from Monash University, that was submitted to the Treasury consultation into the design of the ban on the use of adverse genetic testing results in life insurance. The joint submission provides recommendations on how the legislation should be designed to support and protect people from genetic discrimination in life insurance.

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