[waterstraat]

insurance costs have grown too steep to risk hiring smokers.

If the goal is to lower medical insurance costs, the county needs to require genetic testing and family medical history of any and ALL!! potential employees. Anyone with a family history of breast cancer, alcoholism, heart attacks, obesity, arthritis, MS, diabeties, etc, should be excluded.

NOt hiring smokers to become deputies, is a very very small piece of the pie, and relatively inconsequential in the larger scheme of what maladies we can now screen for when interviewing any potential employee candidate.

To really improve medical costs, current employees should also be screened, and if any current employee is found to have a family medical problem history, if he smokes, if he is over weight, then fire them.

Why should healthy people with no defective genes be made to pay higher medical costs by keeping fattees or diabetics on the payroll?

By eliminating all government employees who are more likely to have medical problems, the taxpayers would save a bunch on health care costs.

[SheLion]

Like this?

This guy works at the local hospital as a physical therapist!

Do you think THIS IS HEALTHY????

Also, from the Rand Report:

OBESITY LINKED TO HIGHER RATES OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND WORSE PHYSICAL
QUALITY OF LIFE THAN SMOKING, DRINKING OR POVERTY
THREE OF FIVE ADULT AMERICANS ARE OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE

[boop]

Exactly HOW do smokers cause workman's comp costs? I understand how someone who is high on crank could, but since when do smokers cause accidents? Also, you are more "healthy" to be a thin smoker than a fat non-smoker.

[Great Dane]

By eliminating all government employees who are more likely to have medical problems, the taxpayers would save a bunch on health care costs.

Yes, but it's open season on smokers only, everyone else gets a pass.

[BADROTOFINGER]

By eliminating all government employees who are more likely to have medical problems, the taxpayers would save a bunch on health care costs.

With the added benefit of cutting government by about 90%. I like it!!!
JFK

[BADROTOFINGER]

By eliminating all government employees who are more likely to have medical problems, the taxpayers would save a bunch on health care costs.

With the added benefit of cutting government by about 90%. I like it!!!
JFK