{"id":1166,"date":"2005-03-19T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-19T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2005-03-19T06:20:54","modified_gmt":"2005-03-19T06:20:54","slug":"employees_who_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Employees Who Smoke Face Health Care Surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/bym\/news\/mar05\/310934.asp\">Paul Gores<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>That&#8217;s why she is troubled by a rule that will go into effect at her company next January. Trapp-Dietz and other smokers who work at Northwestern Mutual &#8211; regardless of whether they light up at home or outside the building at work &#8211; will pay an extra $25 a month for health insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Trapp-Dietz said considers the fee an invasion of her private life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know I have to quit, and I really want to. But I don&#8217;t like being told to by my employer,&#8221; she said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  These type of disincentives are already in play if one purchases other benefit type products such as life insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Gores: That&#8217;s why she is troubled by a rule that will go into effect at her company next January. Trapp-Dietz and other smokers who work at Northwestern Mutual &#8211; regardless of whether they light up at home or outside the building at work &#8211; will pay an extra $25 a month for health insurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}