This insult to privacy and personal rights is only made possible because of the socialist setup we have right now. If private sexual practices are outside the bounds of what an employer can control of an employee’s behavior, so is what he eats or how much, what exercise he does and when. If we want to allow employers to sanction obese employees, because the employer pays the health insurance costs, then we must allow the employer to have a say in any other behavior that affects health insurance costs: diet, exercise, hobbies, driving practices, where he lives, etc.
The only solution is to insist that employees carry their own insurance, paid for out of their own pocket, and that the employers just pay the worker their full gross pay, that is the pay plus the existing insurance subsidy. That takes health care out of the realm of the employer, where it never belonged and restores it to the person who is insured and the person who submits the claims.
We must never allow anyone, government or employer, to provide a function that we need and should pay for ourselves. This is just as true for health insurance as it is for saving for retirement.
“then we must allow the employer to have a say in any other behavior that affects health insurance costs: diet, exercise, hobbies, driving practices, where he lives, etc.”
But what about the job itself when it contributes to the employees bad habit?
There alot of people who reach for a drink - a cigarette - or a dozen doughnute - when they’ve had an especially bad day at work.
There are alot of people whose work schedule is so hectic, they don’t have the time to make sure they are eating fresh healthy food. They don’t have time to exercise.
So it seems if they’re going to address ALL the factors -then some of it should start right at the workplace itself.