New urine test can quickly detect whether a person has a healthy diet

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3 pointsrenafowler2 comments

Health insurance companies are going to love this. Expect to see a spinoff for-profit organization that monetizes the tests (charging the end user of course - probably via their insurance premium).

The fancy 'public healthcare' rhetoric coming from a UK research project is all well and good for now, but we all know that this will end up being a mandatory part of any health check for insurance purposes.

On a lighter note, the idea of all that leak data being (inevitably) leaked is amusing

>The fancy 'public healthcare' rhetoric coming from a UK research project is all well and good for now, but we all know that this will end up being a mandatory part of any health check for insurance purposes.

Why not? Why shouldn't people who take care of themselves get cheaper insurance?

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