11 2 / 2011
I’ve been gone
for awhile
back in school, cold of winter. Yesterday walked to the bus to go to my morning class, it was -9 out. But classes are good
lil article that caught my eye
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/us/11smoking.html?src=me&ref=general
Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban
Excerpts
[ About 1 in 5 Americans still smoke, and smoking remains the leading cause of preventable deaths. And employees who smoke cost, on average, $3,391 more a year each for health care and lost productivity, according to federal estimates.
“We felt it was unfair for employees who maintained healthy lifestyles to have to subsidize those who do not,” Steven C. Bjelich, chief executive of St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., which stopped hiring smokers last month. “Essentially that’s what happens.”
The head of the Cleveland Clinic was both praised and criticized when he mused in an interview two years ago that, were it not illegal, he would expand the hospital policy to refuse employment to obese people. ]
eeeck I don’t like this at all, what next, no women because they’ll cost more on insurance if they get pregnant?, no people with disabilities? uggh it’s not enough that companies already unofficially take issues like this into account when hiring, but to announce it and piss test employees etc…. slippery slope yo
