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From: brianl@uunet.uu.net (Brian Larsen)
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Subject: Re: Get tested
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Date: 17 Oct 89 23:48:47 GMT
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In the latest round of discussion re: annonymous / confidential
testing one thing need to be noted; with a "confidential" test,
it is only so as long as the government supports that stand.

Everyone, I hope, has heard of the "quarantine" initiatives that
have popped up periodically across the nation as a reaction to
the AIDS epidemic, well if such legislation ever passed, a physicain
may be required by law to open the records of known HIV carriers.

This is the fear I had.  

The other, is one of your health insurance.  Once ir has been recorded
in a medical record, if you change companies, it can be used as a
pre-existing condition.  And this is not at all uncommon!!

Just a few more thoughts....

--Brian Larsen