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[rushthatspeaks]

Cheering link of the day: Looks like they're getting closer to linking chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus. Maybe this will finally make people stop with the it's-all-in-your-head nonsense I've seen far too many friends and acquaintances have to deal with. Via chomiji.

Utterly rage-inspiring seeing-red link of the day: Having been raped as a pre-existing condition. If you take anti-HIV drugs after having been raped, you're probably uninsurable after that. Via jonquil.

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[slashfairy.livejournal.com]

cheering = yay!
rage-inducing = what the fucking kind of fuckery is this? what about having raped as a pre-existing condition? *stamps feet and loses coherence for a moment*

ok, i gotta think 'bout this... because that's just wrong.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

The sad part is that the latter doesn't surprise me at all. It's obviously not in the insurance company's interest to insure anyone who they think is at high risk of requiring expensive medical care, whether because of rape, or a previous accident, or simply genetics. At least Massachusetts prohibits that kind of thing (and it's a good thing for me); maybe eventually we'll have a national law that does the same thing.

[zdenka]

I will send both these links to my father, who works for a health insurance company, and see what he says. I recently had a somewhat frustrating conversation with him in which I tried to tell him that chronic fatigue syndrome is not a psychological disorder and didn't make much progress.