Theres a lot of hysteria about HR 1281 which just passed through Congress. Unfortunately, this is old news. The original bill was passed back in 2007 as HR 3825. Among other things, it is a grant program that provides grant money for screening newborns for various diseases. I dont like it because it is estimated to cost us $80 million a year by the CBO, and it provides grants for coordination of surveillance activities, including standardized data collection and reporting, harmonization of laboratory definitions for heritable disorders and testing results, and confirmatory testing and verification of positive. If they keep your childs blood on file, they can later derive their DNA from that blood.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:29:30 +0000