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AIDS and Life Insurance: 'Living Benefits' for Persons with AIDS

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 4 (1989): 229-32
David K. Nelson

During the first half of 1989, the public news media carried several stories about a variety of concepts known as "living benefits" for persons with AIDS or terminal illnesses. The phrase living benefits is being applied to three different concepts, and it is my intention here to touch briefly on all three, to discuss the public policy implications of these proposals, and perhaps to provide some suggestions for persons with AIDS (PWAs) who want to investigate living benefits programs.
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