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Re:Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends? by learc83 on Friday October 02, 2015 @01:43PM (#10320050)
Anti-discrimination laws don't cover everything. For instance, it is generally OK to put out a casting call for a blonde male actor, and a company can refuse to hire someone in a wheelchair for a warehouse job.
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Re:Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends? by eli on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:25PM (#10320304)
Those are both examples of employment. It's true that there are some exceptions to employment anti-discrimination laws, but they don't apply at all to how much you charge someone for health insurance.

(And not to belabor your example, but the person in the wheelchair has to actually be unable to do the job even with "reasonable accommodations" from the employer. It's not enough to say "it seems like it might be dangerous" or "we don't have ramps")

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Re:Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends? by jsprogrammer on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:53PM (#10320884)
Well, we aren't talking about everything. Only insurance premiums.
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