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Re “Price for a puff? $520,” Nov. 18: Premier Health Partners wants to assess a surcharge on health care benefits not only their for employees who smoke, but for any employee who lives with smokers. This is a slippery slope to total invasion of the privacy of people who don’t even work for them. No federal funds should go to any agency that has a policy this invasive.
This war on smokers in our society is getting out of hand, as smoking is still a legal and heavily taxed activity.
No one has a right to know what you or others who live with you do in the privacy of your home.
John Adams
Dayton
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7:25 PM, 11/30/2009
1:45 PM, 11/30/2009
I don't smoke and I do the things I should to stay reasonably fit, why should I cover your medical insurance costs as I am in a completely different risk category?
I'm assuming, of course, that you would also object to Florida homes being charged a Hurricane Insurance surcharge Or a California hme facing an Earthquake charge because it is the same priciple.
1:27 PM, 11/30/2009