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27 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 1547 (1993)
Government and Public Policy in the United States: What Should Be the Role of State and Federal Government in Regulating Genetic Data

handle is hein.journals/sufflr27 and id is 1567 raw text is: Government and Public Policy in the United States: What Should Be the Role of State and Federal Government in Regulating Genetic Data? OCTOBER 22, 1993 Moderator: Professor Barry Brown' Professor Stephen C. Hicks2 Panelists: Roberta B. Meyer3 Paul R. Billings, M.D., Ph.D.4 Philip R. Reilly, M.D.5 Michael S. Yesley6 Professor Barry Scheck7 Robert Gellman' Ms. MEYER: I am going to give you all a very broad overview of where we are. I represent the American Council of Life Insurance, which is comprised of 534 life insurance companies that represent about ninety percent of the life insurance in force in the United States. Today I am going to focus my comments exclusively on our concern of underwriting for life insurance. The ACLI does have many mem- ber companies that sell health insurance and our legislative policy for life and health insurance is the same. Essentially, our policy is that genetic information is as potentially relevant to risk classification as is any other health information. The ACLI and our sister organization, 1. Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School. 2. Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School. 3. State Legislative Director for American Council of Life Insurance, Washington, D.C. Ms. Meyer was previously in-house counsel for the Life Insurance Company of Virginia. 4. Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Chief of General Internal Medicine, Department of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto. 5. J.D. Columbia University School of Law, 1973; M.D. Yale University School of Medicine, 1981; B.A. Cornell University 1969. Dr. Reilly is currently the Executive Director of The Shriver Center for Mental Retardation, Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts. From 1989-1993 he was Chairman of the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics. He is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. 6. Coordinator of the U.S. Department of Energy Program on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project and Staff Attorney, Los Alamos National Laboratory. 7. Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Professor Scheck has served on Governor Cuomo's Forensic DNA Advisory Panel and co-chairs the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers DNA Task Force. 8. Chief Counsel to the Congressional Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice and Agriculture. Mr. Gellman was involved with the creation of the Human Genome Initiative.

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