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The New York Times - December 17, 1985
The state Department of Insurance has approved putting the question on policy applications beginning early next year.
"It will be like any other question about medical history, like cancer or something else," a department spokesman, Thomas Hooper, said.
Industry officials have said they are concerned about heavy losses from AIDS patient's medical bills. The State Insurance Commissioner, Hazel F. Gluck, said she was told the bills average $140,000 a patient.
In a letter to health insurers, the Commissioner said that, while the questions about AIDS would be permitted, questions about an applicant's way of life or sexual preferences would be prohibited. .
AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, breaks down the body's ability to fight infections, and is transmitted mainly through contaminated needles and intimate sexual conduct, authorities say.
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