Healthcare and Drug Testing Issues For Employers
Health care costs for employers are outrageously high, now the state legislatures and congress want to make it mandatory that all employers have health care coverage. This means someone with a pre-existing condition may not be able to get employment because no employer’s health provider will wish to take them, because if they did this would put them at considerable risks.
There are also issues with regards to people that do drugs, not only is it a workplace safety issue, but it is also a real dilemma for the insurance care provider, as someone that does recreational drugs to extreme will end up with health issues too. When they do it overloads the health care plans and raises costs for everyone. Now unions do not wish to have their members subjected to random or mandatory drug tests, but this means the health care provider cover these expenses, thus we all pay in the end for the drug user’s poor choices.
Now, they want to legalize drugs, this causes a problem because if everyone gets free medical from the government’s proposed “universal health care program” and people do crystal meth, they’ll need new heart valves at age 35, who is paying for it?
People who are on drugs are not always in their proper frame of reference, often make poor choices, and drug desire comes before anything else, so, that causes problems all the way around. Even athletes taking steroids have incredible temper flares. Customer service goes out the window.
So, not only is this a serious workplace safety and business concern, it is also an extremely hot topic for healthcare insurance coverage and something we need to consider.