Saturday Link Love: Diagnoses, Mueller, and Health Insurers

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

I Thought I’d Be Lucky if I Didn’t Marry a Rapist, by Samantha Field—“It was a fairly consistent pattern with my girlfriends: we were, essentially, convinced that “wedding night” equaled “possible rape.”

Rule Explainer: Why We Don’t Diagnose People Through The Internet, on Captain Awkward—“We are addicted to redemption narratives.”

Conservatives Hate That the Mueller Probe Is Taking So Long — but Love When Investigations Into Police Brutality Drag on Forever, on The Intercept—“I have to put quotation marks around ‘investigation,’ because, unlike the Mueller probe, you’d struggle to find a single credible person in the country that actually believes that the city, state, or federal government has actually been investigating the Garner case for 48 months.”

Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates, on ProPublica—“Without any public scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing.”

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