Insurance industry warns of price hikes as genetic discrimination bill passes Senate

House sponsor Liberal MP Rob Oliphant accuses companies of overstating the impact.
Senate Liberal Leader James Cowan, pictured in 2014, introduced two similar bills in the past but neither made it past the Senate.
Canada’s insurance industry is warning of price hikes for consumers if a senator’s bill banning unsanctioned access to personal genetic test results is passed. The Senate public bill (the upper chamber’s equivalent of a private member’s bill) won Senate approval last week with bi-partisan s...

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