Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ginosko!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-ics!ucla-cs!mit-amt!henry@garp.mit.edu From: mit-amt!henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: Get tested Message-ID: <28388@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 22 Oct 89 22:19:55 GMT References: <27888@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <28114@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <28136@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <28290@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: mit-amt!henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Organization: MIT Project Athena Quality Assurance Team Lines: 22 Approved: aids@cs.ucla.edu Archive-number: 1378 brianl@sco.com (Brian Larsen) wrote: ->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!! my hmo (harvard community health plan, which serves the boston/cambridge area) described the pros and cons of hiv antibody testing ... this is one of the cons they warn about. to wit, if you get tested at hchp, it will be recorded on your record, and if you lose your coverage because you are no longer a member of a group then you risk not being able to convert your coverage to individual coverage when your group membership expires. i do applaud their honesty, even if the policy itself is reprehensible. as for me? i have an appointment to have blood drawn next month (it's *amazing* how far in advance anonymous test sites are booked ... i made this appointment first week of october) obviously i'm not going to my hmo :-{ # Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # / /