Are you sure it isn’t more of a case of the free market at work, whereby employers and insurers are telling the unvaccinated to start paying for the consequences of their own decisions, when if affects profit margin?
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“Delta Air Lines was the first major employer to announce it was taking this tactic. In August, Delta CEO Ed Bastian announced unvaccinated employees enrolled in its healthcare plan would have to pay $200 extra in health insurance each month.
Bastian said the rise in premiums for unvaccinated workers was necessary to offset the costs of covering medical bills for workers who ended up in the hospital with COVID-19.
“The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person,” said Bastian in August