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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

  1. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member


    This is the way.
     
  2. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  3. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    This translates as “Shut up and soldier.”

     
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  4. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    Thank you, Delta.

    And so it begins.
     
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  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    To preface this, I think they should be able to do this.

    But is it entirely clear that they can, given how their insurance is regulated?

    Why can't they tell employees who are overweight that they have to pay more to compensate for the risks associated with insuring them?
     
  6. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Yes, Delta can do this. Its insurance company cannot, but it can impose the fee.
     
  7. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    My last newspaper job made smokers pay an additional $50 a paycheck for insurance. I think it's on par with that. The overweight question is an interesting one, but I think the lines are a little more blurred. Are you just a little overweight or are you morbidly obese? Is there a sliding scale.

    The others are simple. Smoking is willfully putting a harmful toxin in your body. Being unvaccinated is willfully opening yourself up to serious illness during a global pandemic.
     
  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    They can.

    My health insurance knocks up to $1,000 per year off the cost (via rebates) if I do certain things like exercising X minutes per week, getting a colonoscopy and even taking health surveys via their app.
     
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  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The smoking provision was specific a carveout in the ACA. Insurance companies are allowed to charge up to 50 percent more to smokers. So I know they can legally do that. I thought you could not do anything on pricing for other risk factors -- which is one of the things that drove so many companies out. I am wondering if it might somehow be influenced by Delta self-insuring and turning to an insurance company only for administration. I'm not sure why that would matter, but I am just curious why they can do it when I thought the ACA says they can't do it.
     
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  10. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

  11. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    It’s a neat little work-around the Georgia anti-vaccine mandate law. Wonder if other ATL companies will do similar?
     
  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Deportations peaked in the Obama era, did they not?

    You're the one who painted yourself in a weird corner because, I dunno, you wanted to own a Christian on the immigration issue. Now you're stuck suggesting US policy should reflect the religion leanings of its voters, which probably is not the kind of world most people on this board would like.

    My own take is wise Christianity just isn't that hung up on power or government and, to the extent it is, that's rarely been a good thing. Christians oughta just locally take of homeless people, for example, and stop worrying about public policies that reflect our values.
     
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