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Originally Posted by be-bop
Do most employers pay for your healthcare?Is it part of your salary or private insurance at a cheaper rate through your employer ?
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Most employers pay for the employee's healthcare, and then the employee is usually partially or entirely responsible for any dependents he or she has. If you can prove that no one in your workplace smokes, the overall healthcare price goes way down for the group--because smokers cost a shit-ton of money when they get emphysema or lung cancer--with the potential to save both employer and employee money.
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Originally Posted by Elspode
Once they start requiring genetic testing, it is going to get real ugly.
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Just being the optimist here, but I think that the line between health
choices and health
genetics will serve as a big wall in the middle of the slippery slope. People won't stand for discrimination based on your inherited dispositions, only discrimination based on entirely voluntary decisions.