Delta Airlines will charge unvaccinated employees $200 per month extra for their health benefits. But, they are not mandating vaccination.
While insurers are prohibited from charging higher premiums to unvaccinated people, employers themselves can.
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Here's more information on what employers can do to require vaccination or use financial carrots or sticks to encourage it.
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A vaccine mandate means unvaccinated workers lose their jobs. A health insurance surcharge for unvaccinated workers is less coercive and likely less effective. It also opens up a hornet's nest of issues around whether people's behavior should affect what they pay for health care.
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One of the standards an employer wellness program has to meet is that it has a reasonable chance of improving health or preventing disease.
Assuming Delta's health benefits surcharge increases vaccine uptake, it's a no-brainer that it meets that standard.
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One has to wonder why Delta is going through all the complexity of a $200 per month health insurance surcharge for unvaccinated workers rather than the much simpler route of a straight up vaccination requirement.
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If states move to ban vaccine mandates, employers may instead look to financial sticks to encourage vaccination like Delta Airlines.
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Why should anyone fly on a plane with unvaccinated cabin crew? F-cking madness!
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This is essentially a stick. Plus they will have to test once a week and wear an indoor mask
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Freedom isn't really free.
Maybe these anti-vaxers will finally realize their obligations and be part of the Team.
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it doesn’t make any sense to be prohibited from raising rates on anyone who is partaking of risky behaviors or lifestyles. If I started smoking at 49 and my doctors and insurance companies were aware of that I believe I would get quite a hike in my premiums.
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