Invoking the principle of confidentiality in order to avoid job discrimination is seriously considered by the Joint NIH-DOE Working Group on Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) of human genome research. Yet, more importantly, ELSI supports "universal access to . . . basic health services" and states that "information about past, present or future health status, including genetic information, should not be used to deny health care coverage or services to anyone." Rather than relying simply on protection of privacy, the point here is that genetic information, whether available or not available, should not affect access to basic health care. Genetic Information and Health Insurance (Washington, DC: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Human Genome Research, Publication No. 93-3686, May 10, 1993) 2.