Posted on 10/06/2021 5:57:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
As the deadline nears for Ochsner Health employees to get vaccinated or lose their jobs, the health system is also increasing pressure for employees' family members to get a shot.
Ochsner, the state's largest health system, will now add a health insurance surcharge of $100 per pay period for employees with unvaccinated domestic partners or spouses who are covered under the system's benefits plan, according to a letter Ochsner leaders sent to employees.
The “spousal COVID vaccine fee,” will begin in 2022 and could deduct up to $2,400 yearly from an employee’s bi-weekly paycheck. According to the letter, the fee is only for domestic partners or spouses, not other dependents, such as children, who are covered by the employee’s health insurance and are eligible for vaccination.
The change comes after an evaluation of plan benefits, services and costs, CEO Warner Thomas said.
"The reality is the cost of treating COVID-19, particularly for patients requiring intensive inpatient care, is expensive, and we spent more than $9 million on COVID care for those who are covered on our health plans over the last year," said Thomas in an emailed statement.
It's becoming more common for employers to make unvaccinated people on employer-sponsored insurance plans pay more to cover the high potential cost of COVID care.
Delta Air Lines, for instance, announced it would raise health insurance premiums by $200 per month for unvaccinated employees starting Nov. 1. In a memo to employees, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said that COVID-19 hospitalizations cost the company an average of $50,000 per case.
Thomas said the surcharge is part of an effort to keep health premiums low for employees. Unvaccinated patients accounted for 90% of COVID hospitalizations in Ochsner facilities.
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Someone somewhere is gonna blow a gasket.
What about requiring those getting welfare/entitlements to get the vaccines.
What’s the HIV premium for bi-sexual spouses?
What do the breakthrough cases cost?
I am already refusing to do any work for any business with a vaccine mandate for thier employee’s, Maybe it’s time for these companies that Service or make Deliveries to this Hospital to either Just say NO or begin charging a $10,000 assessment for EVERY Delivery or Service Call to the Hospital to cover any costs associated with being infected by Vaccinated Super Spreaders.
“ What’s the HIV premium for bi-sexual spouses?”
Touché.
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The next step will require children to get vaccines.
For more on this:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3999766/posts
Why not include the entire family. After all, most folks down there interact with their families on a regular basis, so cast that net wide.
Should be the other way around if you look at Britain and Israel. The Unvaxed are the only ones not going to the hospital.
If I worked there, it would be amazing how many files/documents and other info would suddenly become accessible to the competition and of course any dirty laundry of company secrets would be aired for the world to see.
and yeah, I’d be stealing office supplies on a daily basis until they fire me.
Any Christian with even half a brain can see where this is going.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
(Revelation 13:16-17)
Given that the unvaccinated are actually a financial windfall for hospitals and insurers when they “die of covid” (read: killed by ventilators), shouldn’t they be getting a discount on their health insurance???
Spouses... How is that not a HIPAA violation...?
bkmk
I am of the opinion that collection of medical data by an employer that alters the benefits provided to that employee, de-facto makes the employer a business partner of the insurance provider.
As such, they are then required to comply with HIPAA.
Why are people dying after getting the Covid vaccine? Pathologists now have answers.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4001080/posts
And here we still have places trying to force vaxxes on people.
It was a whole list of people that shouldn’t get vaccinations, those with with immune system compromises etc. So I guess they can’t get insurance now? Is that the message?
They can , but pay extra!.......................
The vaxxed employees should be supporting the unvaxxed employees in their resistance.
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