Walmart and health insurance

As they should.

 

That's one thing smokers don't realize: Quit smoking and it's like getting a nearly $2,000-a-year raise, based on a pack a day at $5 per pack. The difference between $18,000 a year and $20,000 a year is significant.

I don't have any more of a problem with smokers paying more for health insurance than I do with people with lots of speeding tickets paying more for car insurance.

 

I tend to agree.

The weight issue is a much bigger one, and it will be interesting to see how/if/when that happens...

 

This.

 

Let me emphasize that I am not "blaming" the smokers here ... Lord knows I have my vices, but fortunately I've avoided that one. But man, that poor lady, I just think about how much that habit costs her (relatively speaking).

 

Will never happen. Not on weight alone. There will on heart fitness and risks associated with heart attacks, but never on weight alone.

The court fights over the merits of any system you put in place would take decades.

With smokers, you either smoke or you don't. With fitness, you aren't either fat or not fat. There's a spectrum there.

A better standard and more likely system to raise rates would be high cholesterol levels and high/low blood pressure.

 

Are you going to quit?

 

It won't be long.

The free-enterprise Shiites are starting to seriously beat the drums for the complete privatization of the entire educational process.

I'm single, no kids. Why the hell should I pay school taxes?

 

Stupid people after that. Just dump them in the middle of the ocean by the tanker.

 

What really bad: The Wal*mart policy sounds better than my roomate's policy. Who does she work for, you ask? Cigna, a health insurance company. And the plan they force on their employees is terrible.

 

Yeah, that's a really good idea. You know that one of the roots of high blood pressure is genetics, right?

 

Have to agree with JR here. High blood pressure often has nothing to do with lifestyle.