Health Insurance and Smoking
1st May 2013
California is moving to join Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia on the list of places where health insurance companies are not allowed to charge higher premiums to smokers, NPR reports. The proposed law in California “has so far encountered no formal opposition from anti-smoking groups, cigarette companies, insurance companies or the American Lung Association,” NPR says.
I guess they figure that, if they had their way, there wouldn’t be any smokers, so it’s a moot point.
Another example of how government refuses to allow private parties to shit on groups that government spends it’s time shitting on. Chalk it up as an example of ‘pre-emption’.