23andMe
Posted by jonathan - 12/05/08 at 05:05:26 pmI have been seeing more articles about this new personal genome service, 23andMe. On the patientslikeme.com blog, a staff writer talked about the privacy implications of submitting her info, but in the end she spit since her company, patientslikeme, is all about sharing of medical info. Yesterday at work we got an invite to get a 50% discount for this service. I went to the site, read through some info and while still not really seeing the immediate value was considering the purchase mostly out of curiosity. Today I found out how much the discount was. Let me just say that the price confirms my feeling that access to medical services in this country is completely class ($$$) based. I’m not sure this is how George Bush expected you to spend your $600 tax rebate this year. Would you drop a grand on gene mapping?
ref: nytimes article
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