Chris Farley Independent Consultant 540-722-2143
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Schrom Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] A Pill, a Scalpel, a Database (Snip) CBF: This should definitely be legal. Why should the employer be saddled with the cost of your lowered productivity due to illness? MS: That sounds great, unless you are the one whose children can't have food or clothes or go to college because you can't get a job because EVERY potential employer can find out your A1C or how often you've filled your asthma inhaler prescription. CBF: I am confident that laws can and will be passed that will prevent employers from using medical information against candidates. Laws already exist in the form of the ADA that can be applied. (Snip) That is the idea of co-pays today, just a little hurtle to make sure you really are sick - though that doesn't seem to be working very well. MS: Not true! The copay is a way of shifting the costs away from the insurance plan which has converted to a 'for profit' and needs to pay an increasing percentage of your ever rising premium dollars to their millionaire CEO and stockholders. I have patients who have a $30 copay for a $45 visit, which costs the Insurer $7 after the copay and the $8 risk withhold (which I may never see)! CBF: I'd call that a poor plan. I have a ten dollar co-pay, regardless of the visit cost. Blaming the CEO isn't fair. They have every right to be compensated at ridiculous levels, being that they are in charge of such large organizations. All CEOs are ridiculously compensated. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
