Health insurers to start charging non-vaccinated for their hospital stays!

[thewayne]

How does a $20-50,000 bill sound for not getting vaccinated against a preventable disease?

Additionally, Delta Airlines is going to start charging their unvaccinated employees an additional $200 a month for health insurance. AND they lose their paycheck protection if they get sick with Covid!

So not getting vaccinated is going to start hitting people directly in their wallet!

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/covid-costs-billions-so-delta-to-charge-unvaxxed-airline-workers-200-month/


In other news, The Savior and Messiah for Many, Donald J. Trump, was booed at one of his rallies for recommending that the attendees get vaccinated, just like he and his wife did in January of this year. Looks like he's losing control of the beast that he's created.

He even got blowback from Alex Jones!
"Shame on you, Trump -- seriously...We like you, but my God, maybe you're not that bright. Maybe Trump's really a dumbass."
-- InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the former president encouraging people to get the COVID-19 vaccine

Trump at Alabama rally:
"I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It's good."
Largely-maskless crowd members:
"Boo!"
Trump:
"No, that's OK. That's all right...It is working. But you do have your freedom you have to keep. You have to maintain that."

Comments

[silveradept]

Single payer healthcare is already wildly popular, at least according to the polls. Popular enough that any Congresscritter who isn't deeply in the pockets of the rich and the lobbyists would be promoting it as easy points of popularity toward getting themselves elected. That kind of thing might provide better support for it, but what I would like it to do is to finally piss off the people who can create such health care to the point where they're willing to risk all those campaign dollars. Or to create such a motivated population that it becomes a third rail for anyone to suggest privatizing health care ever again, or to be seen as sometime who doesn't care enough about the health of the country.