<i>&gt; Physicians groups, insurance companies and biomedical ethics groups aren&#x27;t really hip to this idea because patient self-testing bloodwork may open pandoras box to a lot of unnecessary expenses, especially if the patient is trying to bill this through their insurance.</i><p>Yes, and this concern is justified. If I have to pay for your lab tests, I&#x27;m not going to let you just decide to run whatever tests you want. That would be foolish.<p>The solution to this is to allow people to order their own tests if they pay for them themselves. A company like Theranos could then profit by making tests cheap enough for ordinary people to afford them, which would bring much-needed competition to the health care testing industry. But first they need to be able to show everyone, by ironclad evidence, that their tests are reliable.