{"id":43,"date":"2011-11-16T22:13:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/?p=43"},"modified":"2011-11-16T22:13:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:13:59","slug":"wal-mart-smokes-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/2011\/11\/16\/wal-mart-smokes-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Smokes Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fetideats.com\/walmart-rollback\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44\" title=\"rollinback\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/files\/2011\/11\/rollinback-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/files\/2011\/11\/rollinback-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/files\/2011\/11\/rollinback.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obese and smoking employees of Wal-Mart are facing the wrath of its low-cost strategy. Smoking creates a greater burden on Wal-Mart\u2019s health insurance bill; therefore, it has decided to shift that cost to it smoking employees by charging surcharges as high as $2000 per year. These high, insensitive premiums may be seen as an incentive to quit, but in many circumstances, it will lead to the cancellation of health insurance and further endanger the employee\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>If Wal-Mart is just protecting its bottom line, analogously, governments can impose rash premiums for polluting. Governments are concerned with the welfare of society and to protect the environment it should charge Wal-Mart outrageous fees for each ton of C02. Similar to Wal-Mart\u2019s policy, government should require Wal-Mart to reduce its pollution to a bare minimal level before it qualifies for lower premiums.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid paying premiums Wal-Mart has shipped its operations overseas, but employees cannot simply quit in this volatile economic environment. This surcharge is not promoting healthy lifestyles because it is not \u201cpart of a broader effort to help them quit\u201d such as anti-smoking programs. It is just another Wal-Mart ploy to cut costs as the expense of society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/17\/health\/policy\/smokers-penalized-with-health-insurance-premiums.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;ref=business\">The Smokers\u2019 Surcharge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obese and smoking employees of Wal-Mart are facing the wrath of its low-cost strategy. Smoking creates a greater burden on Wal-Mart\u2019s health insurance bill; therefore, it has decided to shift that cost to it smoking employees by charging surcharges as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/2011\/11\/16\/wal-mart-smokes-costs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}