The Daily Skunk

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Health insurance has become a nightmare rearing its lousy evil grin into the eyes of many Americans today. It costs too much for the average person, its cost/level of care ratio seems to be way out of whack, and unless you have more money than the Vatican or, (unlike the current administration would like you to have) a decent job, the prospect of sheltering a family with insurance can be a daunting and intimidating task.

However today, as scientists unravel the mysteries of reproduction, right down to the DNA, we could feasibly predict, though genetic screening, the probability of a child being born with susceptibilities to illnesses and diseases, life threatening and furthermore, although (for the sake of winning hearts and minds) a distant second, EXPENSIVE. People who drain health insurance funds taking care of themselves and theirs due to a lack of control over their genetic defects and susceptibilities can become a thing of the past with this program. Methinks caring parents should have a few cells from their unborn children genetically mapped. Upon mapping, the test results can be sent to the insurance provider of the parents choice.

This is where the insurance companies come in. Health insurance providers, due to the ethicality of the issues presented by this program, will be ordered to provide customers with a standard (unscreened) rate. However, when a parent submit’s a genetic screening of their child’s potential, the insurance company will be allowed to offer discounts for having immunities from deformities, diseases, malignant neoplasms (I have no idea what they are, I just like that word, and they kill more kids than suicide) and other horrible things. Note, an insurance company will NOT be able to deny any customer for having an excess of problems, or will they be able to charge anyone with more than the standard (unscreened) rate, for the sake of fairness for those puritan right wing souls who wouldn’t sell their kid’s DNA for a few dollars off their insurance premiums.

The program is not about cloning human beings, or controlling the health insurance industry. The DNA is only to be mapped for the purpose of determining insurance discounts (just like a good GPA helps young drivers). And the Health insurance companies are left to set whatever standard rate they want and whatever discounts they can afford. This goes without saying anything positive that could come from a mapping a cell is an automatic red flag to the conservatives. However, if you hadn’t noticed the sarcasm already, who wouldn’t want to have their kids mapped not only for the possibility of lowering insurance costs, but also to serve as preemptive knowledge as to what to expect from their unborn offspring. People are already crawling to find out if it’s a boy or a girl; hell, I want to know about the malignant neoplasms! We have the capabilities, lets use them. Why waste the science that humans were meant to have? Let this science and insurance merge for a better tomorrow. And don’t worry, anyone who was waiting for me to plunder down that road, I’ll get into cloning later.