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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: Court Ruling
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.195708.28729@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov10.151701.28669@rock.concert.net> <1992Nov10.211424.4102@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:57:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.211424.4102@oneb.almanac.bc.ca> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.151701.28669@rock.concert.net> bing@jazz.concert.net (Carter E. Bing) writes:
- >
- >> COURT ALLOWS INSURANCE CUTS:
- >> Supreme Court action Monday will allow employers to sharply cut
- >> health insurance coverage for workers with AIDS or other costly
- >> illnesses. Without comment, justices declined to hear the plea of
- >> the estate of John McGann, whose Houston employer cut AIDS
- >> coverage from $1 million to $5,000 after learning he had the
- >> disease in 1987. McGann died last year at 47.
- >
- >Not quite - as I understand it, the ruling (or refusal to rule) only
- >effects employers who fund their own health insurance, not all employers - I
- >think the news suggested about 40% of US employers would be affected.
-
- Which is incorrect, because the ruling only affects employers in Texas,
- Louisiana, and Mississippi. The other 47 states have no federal law on the
- subject.
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