Insuring for hereditary diseases

Dan Sullivan wrote:
> it would require less government
> intrusion to make government the insurer for such hereditary
> problems as muscular dystrophy, sickle-cell anemia, etc., than for
> government to take over the entire insurance industry as proposed.
See Foldvary, "Must We Subsidize Genetic Flaws?", at
http://www.progress.org/2008/fold561.htm