The Nation - News from Aug. 7, 1986
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A federal judge refused to block a District of Columbia law that bars insurance companies from refusing to sell health and life insurance to Washington residents who test positive for exposure to the AIDS virus. Judge Thomas F. Hogan’s ruling allows the nation’s most sweeping law on acquired immune deficiency syndrome and insurance to take effect today, pending final resolution of the case. The law prohibits insurance companies for the next five years from testing people for exposure to the AIDS virus or from denying coverage to those who have tested positive.
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