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Posted by: Villager ( )
Date: February 27, 2021 10:57AM

I came across the name Nomi. I know NAMI is a ligit organization but I had never heard of "Nomi" (with a Utah address) so I scratched a little deeper.
A private Utah company based in Lehi Utah---oh no---that does't sound good!
This is what I found: https://nomihealth.com
It looks like a private health corporation is attempting to squash our public health system. I have been happy with the public system we have in Cache Valley and missionaries have always been able to get any shots, etc. they need.
Nomi claims to not be middlemen but that is exactly what they are.

Your thought's?

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Posted by: Dr. No ( )
Date: February 27, 2021 05:19PM

Villager Wrote:
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> Nomi claims to not be middlemen but that is
> exactly what they are.
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> Your thought's?
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Your concerns are valid.

Healthcare has already too many people between you and your doctor/clinician

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Posted by: Dr. No ( )
Date: February 27, 2021 06:11PM

Dagny wrote:
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I'm leery about insurance companies potentially getting info from ancestry places doing DNA analysis- the kinds that send back reports about your heritage, etc.
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Chopped from discussion, but interesting.
Exposes three concerns related tangentially to OP

1. Profit-motive health care (i.e. middlemen insurance) is unavoidably poor health care, because that health care is secondary to profit. The only reason to be concerned at all, is that some profit-driven entity might use DNA to drive $$$$$ decisions. (By contrast, a clinician would use such data to your advantage.)

2. Would not be concerned about DNA.
It's expensive to sequence DNA and run a risk analysis -- especially under current rules where the insurance company can simply drop you for getting expensive.

3. DNA is only so useful. It's not determinative. The outcome is an interplay between genetic vulnerability and environment.
So for example, genetically identical twins raised apart and one gets schizophrenia, the other identical has only a 50% probability of developing the disorder - even though the DNA is identical. Something else is required to trigger the illness.
So insurance companies are not going to bet the farm on DNA

Of course, just some thoughts -- not being in the profit-driven arm

Twin Studies on p 9
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826121/#!po=45.1389

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Posted by: cinda ( )
Date: February 27, 2021 07:49PM

I couldn't glean from their website exactly what they do.

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Posted by: dagny ( )
Date: February 27, 2021 11:07PM

That story was infuriating. That company was not qualified. My guess is good old Mike Lee got a loyalty gift for his supporters. Then everyone found out they were out of their league and couldn't deliver. The result was lost time and and wasted resources but, hey, loyalty trumps actual performance.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: February 27, 2021 11:54PM

Appalling.

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