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Originally posted by Munchkin03
kt, do you have any information supporting that gay marriage would result in increased insurance premiums due to AIDS medications? Since so many health plans won't cover people due to pre-existing conditions like diabetes, I would imagine it might be difficult to have an AIDS patient covered. Plus, a lot of those medications aren't covered by insurance.
I've read about this topic a lot, and you're the only person I can come across who's said anything of the sort.
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As you've already said, gay men have a higher NEW infection rate than any other group currently. Except for maybe African Americans. The last data I checked out was from '00. But gays still had far and away the highest infection rate then (something in the neighborhood of 3-1 over everyone else).
I didn't say it was a GOOD argument. It's just the only logical one I can come up with against gay marriage.
And like I said, in the long run, it'll probably mean more business for me if I am one day practicing family law as I want to