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[Beer Monkey]

So do plenty of other things that no one is willing to give up.

It really just always seems to come down to "those other people I perceive as lesser than me should do this."

People who use tobacco pay higher health insurance premiums.

 

[-Gozer-]

The Onion already came up with a solution for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRoSJ1y1FSY

 

[deltatheta]

People who use tobacco pay higher health insurance premiums.

So do people who are overweight, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, whatever, at least where I work.

 

[Beer Monkey]

So do people who are overweight, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, whatever, at least where I work.

Not here. We just had our enrollment for 2016. The only penalty rate is for tobacco users. Do you seriously work somewhere that everybody pays a different price for their employee contributions to their premiums?

 

[deltatheta]

Not here. We just had our enrollment for 2016. The only penalty rate is for tobacco users. Do you seriously work somewhere that everybody pays a different price for their employee contributions to their premiums?

Yeah, the last two places that I worked. They set it up as an "discount" incentive where you get weighed/measured/blood tests and you get a bigger discount the more tests you pass. They detect tobacco as part of the blood test and it's one of the factors you get checked for.

 

[Fug Slanderson]

Not surprising. Once you start going down that road, you gotta really, really want to get off. It's pretty damn hard to change addictive behavior. I know if I hadn't tackled my growing weight problem over a decade ago, I'd be among this group. It's so hard to change because even if you want to, you're constantly bombarded by ads and pressure from society to eat garbage and be lazy.

 

[Vicetrailia]

Yeah, the last two places that I worked. They set it up as an "discount" incentive where you get weighed/measured/blood tests and you get a bigger discount the more tests you pass. They detect tobacco as part of the blood test and it's one of the factors you get checked for.

That sounds terrible.

 

[deltatheta]

That sounds terrible.

Well, it's legal.

Under federal law, your employer can vary your health insurance premium by up to 20 percent based on a “health factor;” that goes up to 30% as of 2014 and the government could eventually raise it as high as 50%.

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/09/wellness-program-legal-limits