A Louisiana Health System Will Increase Insurance Fees of Employees With Unvaccinated Spouses

[Robert59]

Louisiana’s largest nonprofit health care provider will increase its employees’ insurance fees next year if their spouses or domestic partners are unvaccinated, the provider said.

Ochsner Health said in a letter to its employees last month that it was adding the extra charge — about $200 a month, starting next year — for unvaccinated spouses and domestic partners who are covered by the company’s insurance plan.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-health-system-increase-insurance-114601640.html

 

[terry123]

Not surprised at all. It is to be expected. The cost for treating a covid patient is out of sight. Especially if you are on a vent. I was on a vent for 6 weeks after a massive stroke 25 years ago. It is a horrible thing to go through!!

 

[Gemma]

Well, let's see...get a free vaccination or not get vaccinated and pay an extra $2400 a year? It would be a no brainer for me!

 

[Don M.]

I strongly suspect that Health Insurance costs are going to rise substantially...for everyone. The billions of dollars in costs being run up as a result of the Covid WILL have to be paid by Someone....and that Someone is going to be All of us.