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Obesity increases group plan premiums

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

According to this story in the New York Times, obesity and even moderate overweight conditions led to a 27% increase in group health plan premiums.
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COMMENT:
If employers are directly being surcharged for their employee’s health conditions, shouldn’t they have a right to pick and choose employees based on their health status?

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