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Health Connect website makes assumpions about its users

BELLOWS FALLS — Dear Vermont Health Connect website programmers:

I find your security questions to be highly inappropriate and discriminatory against low-income Vermonters who have lived lives without the privileges that your security questions assume everyone to have experienced.

You have made it so that many people who did not finish high school; who were adopted, the child of a single parent, or don't have access to their birth records; who cannot work due to disabilities; or who didn't enter college or take the SAT cannot sign up due to your badly phrased security questions that simply do not apply to everyone!

I demand that you change these to options that do not discriminate against those without higher educations, careers, or parents so that they can sign up for an account.

Demand equality in health-care access for all Vermonters!

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