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It would be interesting to hear a perspective from some of the HNers that actually worked on the re-build of HealthCare.gov

I agree. On the surface, this looks ridiculous and I am very surprised. Hopefully there is a good explanation... but pregnancy status as a query parameter? I don't understand what that could be other than data mining.

And knowing that someone is pregnant is extremely valuable to advertisers[0]

[0] http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy/

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