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Large companies with older workers will eventually have to mandate, they can’t afford the long covid costs/insurance. They can’t fire people for smoking or obes
by hindsightbias 5y ago
Large companies with older workers will eventually have to mandate, they can’t afford the long covid costs/insurance. They can’t fire people for smoking or obesity, but this will give them an out.
More youthful companies will punt but check back in when Covid-35 or -40 hits.
I wonder if Health Insurance providers will make it mandatory or have different rates based on vax.
- zwieback 5y agoI'd like to see insurers say "due to COVID our costs have gone up but you can get a discount if you're vaxxed." Increasing just for unvaxxed is probably hard but offering an incentive may work. Where I work we have a mandate and it's like 98% compliance. A few have opted to go 100% remote so they can avoid the vaccine but practically nobody quit over this.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoWonder if that would be legal under ACA and other existing laws regulating health insurance. You can do it for tobacco use but can't do it for a whole lot else. They'd probably need Congressional approval and if that were possible, Congress always would have passed a mandate law instead of the Executive Branch trying to make their own law.
- nradov 5y agoDue to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), medical insurers can't legally set premiums based on vaccination status. However, employers are generally allowed to cut their contributions to employee insurance premiums on that basis.
- hindsightbias 5y agoInformative!
- yucky 5y agoDo you have a source for that? It's interesting.
- nradov 5y agohttps://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/ https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/