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SD987 · 01-03-2007, 11:19 AM

Medicare should not pay for your future treatment and private insurance rates should be raised for 'high risk' policy holders, much like driving.

Insurers already charge more for individual "high risk" (read smokers) policy holders. Group rates of course, generally do not. However, I'd be careful advocating selective underwriting of health coverage at the discretion of insurers based on perceived "high risks" , that's a slippery slope.

In defense of casinos, I'd say that if one considers the number of smokers in Vegas (where it seems like 1 in 3 persons is smoking at a given time, no matter where you go) the casinos have done a remarkable job through ventilation and air filtration to make the air quality as good as possible.

01-03-2007, 11:19 AM	#17
SD987 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: San Diego, California Posts: 874	Medicare should not pay for your future treatment and private insurance rates should be raised for 'high risk' policy holders, much like driving. Insurers already charge more for individual "high risk" (read smokers) policy holders. Group rates of course, generally do not. However, I'd be careful advocating selective underwriting of health coverage at the discretion of insurers based on perceived "high risks" , that's a slippery slope. In defense of casinos, I'd say that if one considers the number of smokers in Vegas (where it seems like 1 in 3 persons is smoking at a given time, no matter where you go) the casinos have done a remarkable job through ventilation and air filtration to make the air quality as good as possible. __________________ http://i7.tinypic.com/24ovngk.jpg http://i7.tinypic.com/24ow0id.jpg 06 987S- Sold Carrara White / Black / Black/Stone Grey Two-tone 05 987 5-speed - Sold Midnight Blue Metallic / Metropol Blue / Sand Beige 06 MB SLK350- Lease escapee Iridium Silver Metallic / Black We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. - Robert Wilensky Last edited by SD987; 01-03-2007 at 11:28 AM.