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A lot of employers are asking that now.
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10/26/2013 6:07:03 PM
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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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