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Re:Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers by hindsightbias on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:45PM (#29927323)
Large companies with older workers will eventually have to mandate, they can’t afford the long covid costs/insurance. They can’t fire people for smoking or obesity, but this will give them an out.

More youthful companies will punt but check back in when Covid-35 or -40 hits.

I wonder if Health Insurance providers will make it mandatory or have different rates based on vax.

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Re:Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers by nradov on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:35PM (#29928565)
Due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), medical insurers can't legally set premiums based on vaccination status. However, employers are generally allowed to cut their contributions to employee insurance premiums on that basis.
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Re:Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers by yucky on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:26PM (#29930587)
Do you have a source for that? It's interesting.
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Re:Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers by nradov on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:11AM (#29930817)
https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/
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Re:Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers by hindsightbias on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:27PM (#29929920)
Informative!
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Re:Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers by zwieback on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:53PM (#29927407)
I'd like to see insurers say "due to COVID our costs have gone up but you can get a discount if you're vaxxed." Increasing just for unvaxxed is probably hard but offering an incentive may work.

Where I work we have a mandate and it's like 98% compliance. A few have opted to go 100% remote so they can avoid the vaccine but practically nobody quit over this.

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Re:Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate That Covered 80M Workers by Mountain_Skies on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:06PM (#29927587)
Wonder if that would be legal under ACA and other existing laws regulating health insurance. You can do it for tobacco use but can't do it for a whole lot else. They'd probably need Congressional approval and if that were possible, Congress always would have passed a mandate law instead of the Executive Branch trying to make their own law.
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