'The unvaccinated are essentially asking for a handout, a subsidy for their stance, and that’s cheap talk.' said Jonathan Meer, a professor at Texas A&M University.
People who choose not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus face greater odds of getting seriously ill and hospitalized – a decision that could risk not just their health, but their finances as employers mandate vaccination and insurance companies look at ways to pass on the costs of treatment.41% of eligible Americans
in some states. Taxpayers are on the hook for $178 billion in federal funds allocated to hospitals and health-care providers. Insurance premiums could rise across the board.Google, Biden and NY State have issued vaccine mandates for employees and federal workers. Here's how employees and unions are responding.
Now that vaccines are free and available to all Americans 12 and older, insurers have scaled back those waivers. as vaccines became widely available, as first reported by Kaiser Health News. Humana still covers out-of-pocket costs for older adults on its Medicare plan, but the insurer does not shield out-of-pocket costs for those covered by employer-sponsored plans.
"The person who is holding out against the vaccine doesn’t have the same risk-benefit calculation as someone who gets the vaccine," said Erin Fuse Brown, director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State College of Law."They think the chances they are seriously going to be affected by COVID are pretty small to begin with.
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