Reply #139: We disagree. You live in your "this is how it should be" world, and [View All]

[IdaBriggs]

the rest of us can live in "this is how it IS" world. If you don't want to acknowledge the REAL LIFE problems the rest of us are facing, then you can keep making up your fantasy land answers to problems that only exist in your head.

Employers are NOT trying to "control" the personal lives of their employees, as most of them have too damn much work to do in the regular sixty hour work week they put in. They are, however, trying to CONTROL COSTS.

Now, I appreciate how you keep offering the option of NOT PROVIDING HEALTH INSURANCE AT ALL, but I keep avoiding that particular straw man, because it doesn't address the real problem of how much insurance costs, who is paying for it, and what the ACTUAL costs to employers, employees, and the consumers who have the cost passed along to them in higher prices actually are, plus the fact that DECENT EMPLOYERS genuinely WANT to take good care of their employees. You want a fair world where Smokers get treated the same as everyone else? THEN MAKE SURE THEY DON'T COST MORE MONEY!!!

You don't like it that employers don't want to hire smokers? Then find a way to make Smokers not cost me (the employer) MORE MONEY. And don't pretend to be shocked when pregnant women have trouble finding work, or older workers have challenges competing against younger (cheaper) ones.