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From: dgreen@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dan R. Greening)
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Subject: Re: HIV Vaccine Causes Faulty Infection Diagnosis.
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In article <1991Feb22.130343.9747@cs.ucla.edu> jfh@netcom.COM (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>In article <1991Feb21.135348.18416@cs.ucla.edu> dgreen@cs.ucla.edu writes:
>>My friend, by the way, was also denied insurance based solely on his
>>involvement in a vaccine study!
>
>How did the insurance company find out that he is in the study?  Surely he
>wasn't so careless as to volunteer the information.

My friend is somewhat naive (becoming less naive all the time, though).  
Yes, he volunteered the information.  If the insurance company is to be
believed, they do not insure anyone that they know is involved in any 
experimental drug/vaccine study.  The insurance company told him that he
would be able to obtain insurance after the conclusion of the study, 
however.  I don't know that this is necessarily a gay-male discrimination
thing, though that may be my naivete showing.
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