Oso planning to go pro
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/delta-add-200-monthly-health-insurance-charge-unvaccinated-staff-2021-08-25/The article above from August .. Delta airlines added $200/month to unvaccinated employees' health insurance cost. My company has two cost levels of insurance where you qualify for the low cost option by achieving health points (earned by getting a physical, walking, yoga, whatever.) Many plans, if you're a smoker, you pay more. It seems that adding a surcharge for higher risk employees makes total sense and would be the preferred path instead of mandating/firing non-vaccinated workers. A $2400 annual bite would be a huge self-inflicted sting, but OK.Question .. has anyone seen data or other stories on companies raising insurance premiums for non-vaccinated employees? (Google failed me.)
Your solution makes a lot more sense than firing doctors and nurses who have been on the front lines for 20 months.
I doubt that there are many of those that refuse to be vaccinated.
You’re kidding, right?
Lol. Healthcare companies see doctors and nurses as nothing more than a walking pair of scrubs. If they could get monkeys to do the job for half the cost, they would."Front line heroes" is bullcrap
'For-profit'? Teachers, first responders paramedics.... oh, wait, they are already criminally underpaying paramedics.
Teachers? If they could hire a robot they would. First responders? I'd almost guarantee that in enough time we see AI in fire fighting technology, and AI in various aspects of policing causing downsizing in both. Paramedics? Same they've already come out with smart ambulances in certain areas. Point is at almost any job we are all a walking pair of (insert here).
I was just responding to Lenny pointing out how medical professionals have been at the "front lines" and so should be respected more. Healthcare employers couldn't care less about individual doctors and nurses - front line or otherwise. All the PR in the last 18 months has been a joke to those working in the field.[/quote}I was extending that notion.
An AMA survey way back in June showed that 96 percent of doctors were fully vaccinated. Of the small percent not yet fully vaccinated, 45% planned to in the near future. So, the figure is probably closer to 98 percent today.
And nurses?
you're not really going to bemoan nurses who don't believe in, or ignoring, medical science losing their jobs are you?
Simplistic generalization, but why not?
because a) it's their choice and b) a significant portion of a nurses job is understanding and following medical science - not doing so indicates they are not fit for the position.
Our hospitals are very much understaffed right now. If you think it’s wise to put policies in place that exacerbate the problem, so be it. I don’t. Would I prefer that the nurse treating me in the hospital, the fireman saving my burning home or the cop answering my 911 call be vaccinated? Absolutely. But I don’t want my operation postponed, my house burning down or someone answering my 911 call too late because I’m being “protected” from the non vaccinated. They don’t scare me that much.
Are these front line hero’s just too lazy to abide by the testing rules then? If you don’t get the 💉, then line up every week and get your test.
You're exaggerating the number of these people who are unvaccinated and are walking away from their professional careers.It isn't a statistically significant amount. I promise. You're consuming media that has created a boogeyman that does not exist.