ACA and smoking

RobVG — 10/26/2013 3:05:39 AM (archived)

Affordable Care Act: Smoking sends health premiums higher

And you better not lie about it.

I've been insured for 25 years through 7 different providers. I have never once been asked if I smoked.

Oh well, it's the smokers driving up costs to insurers. Makes good business sense.

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ACA and smoking - RobVG - 10/26/2013 3:05:39 AM
- Bad drivers hate that their record is known to their auto insurers too. - alcaray - 10/27/2013 2:01:18 AM
- What a load of horse shit - Jody - 10/26/2013 4:17:49 PM
  - Are you and I the only smokers left here - FrankC - 10/27/2013 1:40:46 AM
  - A lot of employers are asking that now. - ER - 10/26/2013 5:54:39 PM
    - BINGO - Jody - 10/26/2013 6:07:03 PM
  - I don't get the indignation here. - TB - 10/26/2013 5:11:43 PM
    - "You don't drink don't smoke, what do ya do?" - RobVG - 10/26/2013 6:11:27 PM
      - looks like a trade-off - Robert - 10/27/2013 2:55:59 AM
        
        It's easy to dump on smokers. - ER - 10/27/2013 4:49:36 AM
        
        Single payer, the universal solvent. - Robert - 10/28/2013 4:35:42 AM
        
        They cost me money. They harm my health. - alcaray - 10/27/2013 11:09:56 PM
        
        They aren't apologetic. Instead they are quite strident. - alcaray - 10/27/2013 11:10:38 PM
      - "It’s one thing when your insurance company asks if you smoke. It’s another when it’s a government condition for using the health exchange." - ER - 10/26/2013 6:41:09 PM
        
        "Shoppers" - RobVG - 10/26/2013 7:09:56 PM
        
        It's fraud if you do it directly to an insurance company, too. - alcaray - 10/26/2013 9:51:25 PM
        
        The government isn't selling you the insurance. - ER - 10/26/2013 8:19:26 PM
        
        EDIT: - ER - 10/26/2013 8:43:12 PM
        
        I can't argue with any of that. n/t - RobVG - 10/27/2013 1:27:27 AM
        
        Still digging. - RobVG - 10/26/2013 8:42:41 PM
    - I didn't say it shouldn't... - Jody - 10/26/2013 5:39:31 PM
- Re: ACA and smoking - TB - 10/26/2013 3:37:05 AM
  - That was initially a matter of attention to the road . . . - DanS - 10/27/2013 6:19:19 PM
    - Not inane. Mostly, it's statistics. - TB - 10/27/2013 6:35:26 PM

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