Employers add own cigarette tax
Smoking ousted by higher costs and ban cigarette smoking in the workplace are increasingly concerned by another cost increase - this time for health insurance.
A growing number of public and private sector employers, workers must use tobacco to pay higher premiums, hoping to motivate more of them to stop smoking and reducing costs for care Medical companies and their employees.
Meijer Inc., Gannett Co., American Financial Group Inc., PepsiCo Inc. and Northwest Airlines are among companies that already have fees or planning to delivery higher premiums smokers. The amounts range from about $ 20 to $ 50 per month.
“With costs for medical care provided by increasing the subject in the last two years, employers are desperate to action costs trains themselves and their collaborators,” said Linda Cushman, senior strategist health care with Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting and services.
She said, the practice of smoker surcharges is also a significant trend that this year it is part of Hewitt’s annual survey on the current status and future plans for health care.
Cushman said a benefits survey of 950 employers in the USA during the last year has shown that 41% at least some form of use of financial incentives or penalties in their health care systems plans .
It is estimated that at least 8% to 10% of businesses probably aimed some incentives or penalties at smokers and says that the percentage increases.
“With smokers costing companies more than 25 per cent more than non-smokers in the field of health care, it only makes sense that good business,” she said.
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