If it’s a bottom line issue, and if those other health care costs that I mentioned are likely already built into the cost of doing business while illness from covid isn't...then maybe, since Covid is likely here to stay...illness from Covid should also be built into the cost of doing business. Since the costs of care for smokers’ and drinkers’, and those with poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (for examples)...which can all be described as self-inflicted damage...are likely already built into the cost of doing business, why cherry-pick Covid as an exception...?
Several years back, my employer was going to test everyone for nicotine and charge a surcharge for tobacco users. That idea quietly died. I want to think there was some legal issue with doing that.
My company has been charging extra on insurance for nicotine use for 10+ years. Think it’s $40 every 2 weeks
