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4:23 PM Friday, November 27, 2009

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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Insurance has always been about assessing the risk. They secure reports about one's driving record and issue automobile policies accordingly. They assess one's home condition and location (ie, Florida) and charge you accordingly. If they are to write a healthcare policy and someone is putting themselves at risk with their behavior, then they too should be charged extra. I heard someone say the other day ours is not a healthcare issue so much as a health issue.

TRS
7:25 PM, 11/30/2009

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Your privacy is your right. Who they (Premiere) have working for them and under what conditions is their right. Don't like it? Work elsewhere!

tbill
1:45 PM, 11/30/2009

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And yet, you expect me to help smokers cover the coming medical costs that we both know catch up to smokers eventually.

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.

Rob
1:27 PM, 11/30/2009

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