Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Another good piece from 60 minutes...
This time it is about workers rights in the USA.
In more than 20 states, the workers have absolutely no rights, i.e. they can be fired for no reasons.
So in order to tackle health insurance costs soaring, the bosses try to get rid of the potential bad apples. Some companies refuse to hire smokers, or fire them if they don't quit. Some others make you go to the gym and follow how much weight you loose.
The problem here is not only that firms can fire at will, but also that they are getting access to very private data which could be used against the employee to discriminate him later on.
They say that 5% of the people represent 50% of the health care costs. So they don't want to have them on their payroll.
My concern with this is that you end up building a society where the difference between the haves and the have-nots is only getting bigger. There is no compassion and solidarity between people.
If the United States really wants to tackle its spiraling health care problems, it should change the way its system work, no stop insuring and healing sick people.
Posted in: _USA , _Society
This time it is about workers rights in the USA.
In more than 20 states, the workers have absolutely no rights, i.e. they can be fired for no reasons.
So in order to tackle health insurance costs soaring, the bosses try to get rid of the potential bad apples. Some companies refuse to hire smokers, or fire them if they don't quit. Some others make you go to the gym and follow how much weight you loose.
The problem here is not only that firms can fire at will, but also that they are getting access to very private data which could be used against the employee to discriminate him later on.
They say that 5% of the people represent 50% of the health care costs. So they don't want to have them on their payroll.
My concern with this is that you end up building a society where the difference between the haves and the have-nots is only getting bigger. There is no compassion and solidarity between people.
If the United States really wants to tackle its spiraling health care problems, it should change the way its system work, no stop insuring and healing sick people.
Posted in: _USA , _Society
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