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.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Hoovie

I'll just go on record as saying I think private business should be able to insure who they wish, and not insure who they wish - as long as there is full disclosure and all parties understand what they are agreeing to when they enter the contract.

What if it becomes socially acceptable to only ensure or hire healthy atheists?

[Aquila]

When we changed health insurance companies they gave us a "voluntary" twenty page questionnaire. We were instructed to decline on the basis they might curtail coverage for some of us.

We are free men, not slaves. If a company can tell me how to live 24/7, they should pay me 24/7.

Besides, with the growing political power of companies, who is to say government will not use the private sector to control and cull us? After all, government is giving this power to corporations.