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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: aids testing and insurance
- Message-ID: <24470@alice.att.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:21:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24470
- References: <1992Dec2.191136.1583@erg.sri.com> <17713@pitt.UUCP> <168BA783F.M20614@mwvm.mitre.org> <17871@pitt.UUCP>
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- In article <17871@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
-
- > The consequences are quite certain. The data is shared with all
- > other underwriters and you will be put in the data base as HIV+
- > and thus uninsurable. If you have any doubt, don't let an insurance
- > company test you.
-
- In which case, you will be put in the data base as `refused test'
- and will be uninsurable too.
-
- There was a story about six months ago about a woman who went for
- a mammogram. The technician botched the test somehow and she had
- to go back for another one, which was negative.
-
- When she applied for insurance later on, she was turned down for
- `two mammograms within a six-month period.' The fact of her application,
- of course, changed that to `insurance denied for medical reasons.'
-
- I doubt she'll ever be able to undo the damage.
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
-