Hospital Will Not Hire Those Who Use Tobacco

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by jfrog

You can't really withdraw support from a hospital. If you are in such bad condition you gotta go where the ambulance takes you. If it's the only hospital within 50 miles of you then you also don't have much of a choice on where to go. Now if it's a hardware store or some other business which offers some non-time-essential service then you can choose to go a little out of your way without any other concern than your gas and time spent to get there.

My personal opinion is that the hospital is probably mandating the no smoking workers policy so they won't have to pay as much on insurance. Sure, I get the hospital is a business... but it's the type of business that is free to mandate pretty much any policy within legal limits with the added benefit that the nature of its business ensures there can't be much of a backlash in terms of potential customers and thus profits.

At least that's how it seems to me...

Maybe I should explain it this way: what if there was a hospital in your area that really went out of their way to support gays. Sure I get you wouldn't go there for the minor stuff anymore... but what about the major stuff? What if they had the best cancer treatment in your area? Would you take inferior care just to not support a hospital that supports gays? I don't think anyone would. Or what if you were in a bad car wreck and they were the closest hospital. You would go there regardless. That's my point, the nature of the business a hospital does ensures that you are going to go there for the major stuff regardless of their policies.