Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian notified employees Wednesday that they will face $200 monthly increases on their health insurance premiums starting Nov. 1 if they aren’t vaccinated against Covid-19, citing steep costs to cover employees who are hospitalized with the virus.
Unvaccinated employees will face other restrictions, including indoor masking effective immediately and weekly Covid-19 tests starting Sept. 12, the Atlanta-based airline said in announcing new Covid policies for employees.
“The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person,” Bastian said in an employee memo. “This surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company. In recent weeks since the rise of the B.1.617.2 variant, all Delta employees who have been hospitalized with COVID were not fully vaccinated.”
United Healthcare administers the airline’s health insurance plans. The change in approach was Delta’s initiative.
Are they going to raise the rates of their employees that don’t eat healthy, ride motorcycles, extreme sport enthusiasts, smokers, drinkers, illegal drug users, employees with kids the list could go on and on. When the vaccinated employees have strokes or one of the many other disorders brought on by the vaccine will those people have their rates raised?
Your comment makes too much sense for those idiots to understand
So if you are not vaccinated you are fined just in case you get it. But if you have been vaccinated and get covid again as many do then that’s okay? I smell a democrat!
So damned unfair, what the hell ever happened to choice. This is no longer the USA.
If the unvaccinated Delta employees don’t get COVID by the time the virus goes away, do they get their $200 per month reimbursed?
and what happens to the vaxxed if they get covid and have to stay home? oh thats right they dont have to stay home in fact they want you to still come to work WHY because you had the shot and you cant get it or spread it REAL SMART ASS HOLES
Courts Are Gonna Be Real Busy ..Another Lawsuit !!!
United Health Care.
Last year, they posted a $10 BILLION profit.
THEN, they raised premiums by 15%. Americans struggling to pay the mortgage and pay for gasoline and groceries should be OUTRAGED!
The CEO should be marched outside and hung from the nearest lamp post.
15% !! AFTER making a $10 billion dollar profit. In one year.