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Jump to full article: WCBD-TV2 (Mt. Pleasant, SC), 2009-10-08
Author: STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Intro: North Carolina is set to become the second state in the country to raise insurance costs for obese state employees; and smokers in both Carolinas will pay higher costs in the coming years.
Smoker Freddy Hall lives in Morganton, North Carolina, and he believes he should pay for it. "In all eventuality, a man who does things to harm himself is going to be discriminated against eventually when it comes to health care," but he hates to see state workers be penalized, saying they have already been hit hard by budget cuts. Smokers will pay more starting in July 2010. The extremely obese will pay more in July 2011.
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The State Employees Association of North Carolina taking a stand against it. SEANC Communications Specialist Mary Adelaide Bell told News Channel 7, via phone, "We feel like the plans are discriminatory. They are invasive. They are unnecessary."
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