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Unvaccinated? Don’t Count on Leaving Your Family Death Benefits
Kaiser Health News ^ | 11/3/2021 | Michelle Andrews

Posted on 11/03/2021 6:22:36 PM PDT by markomalley

These days, workers who refuse to get vaccinated against covid-19 may face financial repercussions, from higher health insurance premiums to loss of their jobs. Now, the financial fallout might follow workers beyond the grave. If they die of covid and weren’t vaccinated, their families may not get death benefits they would otherwise have received.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority no longer pays a $500,000 death benefit to the families of subway, bus and commuter rail workers who die of covid if the workers were unvaccinated at the time of death.

“It strikes me as needlessly cruel,” said Mark DeBofsky, a lawyer at DeBofsky Sherman Casciari Reynolds in Chicago who represents workers in benefit disputes.

Other employers have similar concerns about providing death or other benefits to employees who refuse to be vaccinated.

(Excerpt) Read more at khn.org ...


TOPICS: Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: deathbenefits; insurance; kaiserpermanente; mandate; newyork; vaccine; vaccinemandate
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What this doesn't mention is that anybody unjabbed has already been fired from the MTA.

I'm still waiting on the federal government to mandate that health insurance be cancelled for anybody unjabbed.

I'm still waiting on the federal government to threaten withholding highway funds from states that don't cancel DL's for the unjabbed.

I'm still waiting on the federal government to implement regulations to cancel bank accounts and credit cards for the unjabbed.

I'm still waiting on the DHS to declare the unjabbed as domestic terrorists.

I really wish I could put a "/sarc" tag behind that, but these days, I can't.

1 posted on 11/03/2021 6:22:36 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

They always try the scare tactics first. LET’S GO BRANDON!

BRING ON MAGA!


2 posted on 11/03/2021 6:25:27 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: markomalley

Then benefits from other diseases should be the same also. No payouts at all.

I wane to see exactly what the actuarial tables say on this, the insurance companies know and have the data.


3 posted on 11/03/2021 6:26:11 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag, and that)
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To: markomalley

Always nice to see an insurance contract where the insurer can just unilaterally change the rules any time they want. Sorry for your loss — we’ve just decided we aren’t going to pay for it.


4 posted on 11/03/2021 6:26:22 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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To: markomalley

So....ok to apply same logic to gay lifestyle choice which actually has a much higher death rate?


5 posted on 11/03/2021 6:27:26 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: markomalley

This is “McAullife leads Youngkin by 14 points” storyline— the tables are going to be kicked over soon.


6 posted on 11/03/2021 6:27:45 PM PDT by sopo
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To: markomalley

If that exclusion was not in the contract, that is going to cause some big lawsuits.


7 posted on 11/03/2021 6:28:44 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag, and that)
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To: markomalley

Just the tip of the iceberg. . .there is more evil to follow. The NWO folks are ramping up their agenda. The main thing is the main thing . . .Jesus is the only answer for a wonderful everlasting eternity . . .consider the alternative . . .sadly many don’t have a clue that this world is not our home.


8 posted on 11/03/2021 6:28:54 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com - Our ONLY hope! )
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To: markomalley

I suppose that people who get screwed like this could leave their estates to a contract killer with a list ...

... but that would be wrong.


9 posted on 11/03/2021 6:29:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: 2banana
ok to apply same logic to gay lifestyle choice which actually has a much higher death rate?

Of course not. That would not be "diverse" (/sarc)

10 posted on 11/03/2021 6:29:31 PM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force)
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To: markomalley

Follow the money — anything they can do to swindle you, or in this case your bereaved family.


11 posted on 11/03/2021 6:29:57 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: markomalley
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority no longer pays a $500,000 death benefit to the families of subway, bus and commuter rail workers who die of covid if the workers were unvaccinated at the time of death.

How about if they go hang-gliding?

ML/NJ

12 posted on 11/03/2021 6:30:21 PM PDT by ml/nj ("If the Representatives of the People betray their Constituents ..." Federalist #28; READ IT!)
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To: markomalley

How is this not breach of contract?


13 posted on 11/03/2021 6:30:58 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: TigersEye

That would be genius.

L


14 posted on 11/03/2021 6:33:28 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ml/nj
How about if they go hang-gliding?

Or engage in risky unprotected sex with people who share needles?

15 posted on 11/03/2021 6:33:29 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I had to change my homepage because it was embellished somewhat. Apologies to all.)
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To: markomalley

If the courts were not corrupt then this would never be allowed. People who have taken the vaccine die from covid on a regular basis. People die from the vaccine too.


16 posted on 11/03/2021 6:34:44 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Lurker

I’d like to leave what I’ve got to somebody that deserves it. :)


17 posted on 11/03/2021 6:35:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: Captain Peter Blood; ClearCase_guy

I would expect that they would wait until the current contract expires and this would be part of the contract negotiations.

But who knows? Maybe the contract between the insurer and the NYMTA allows for such changes in “emergencies.” Or the insurance company told NYMTA that they would not be renewed if they didn’t implement this immediately.


18 posted on 11/03/2021 6:36:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: markomalley
The "vaccines" do not prevent you from acquiring covid 19.

The "vaccines" do not prevent you from transmitting the virus to others.

You are just as likely to be infected by a vaxxed person than an unvaxxed.

Many populations with the highest vaccination rates are having the worst outbreaks, with the majority of hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated.

Obviously, tyrannically forcing everybody to get vaccinated isn't about the public good.

Just, what is it about?

19 posted on 11/03/2021 6:37:06 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: markomalley
How did the vaccination status of vaccinated workers who died from COVID-19 matter if they still died? Why do their families get death benefits when the vaccine didn't prevent their deaths just the same as not being vaccinated at all?

-PJ

20 posted on 11/03/2021 6:38:16 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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