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AIDS and Insurance: The Case Against HIV Antibody Testing

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 2, no. 1 (Winter 1987): 19-24.
Mark Scherzer

Though the insurance premiums of gay people may have subsidized benefits to others in the past, gay people clearly are seen not to have a claim for reciprocal support when the costs of their health care or death exceed those of others. Society's reaction to this epidemic has been shaped in large part by its views about the particular populations it most affects.
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