In a statement made at the Parliament House media conference regarding the Australian government’s recommitment to ban the use of genetic tests in insurance underwriting, Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) CEO Christine Cupitt noted the association’s support.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is good for Australians and their families, it is good for the government, and it is good for life insurers too.\u00a0Life insurers are here to provide people with the protection and certainty they need on their best and worst days,\u201d said Ms Cupitt.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenetic testing can provide people with real peace of mind. As life insurers, we want people to access the information they need to make informed choices about their health and proactively manage it in a preventive way.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that Australia\u2019s life insurers have worked with the government for almost two years on the ban, and during that time, CALI\u2019s position has remained consistent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe support the government legislating the ban on the use of genetic testing in life insurance underwriting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement made at the Parliament House media conference regarding the Australian government’s recommitment to ban the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[4740,815,68449,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-106775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-genetics","10":"tag-life-health","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114946246333873375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}