Should Unvaccinated People Have to Pay More for Health Insurance?

Unvaccinated people are at greater risk of getting sick, and of getting others sick as well. Why isn’t that risk reflected in their insurance premiums?

James Surowiecki
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5 min readJul 31, 2021

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This was the month when Americans who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus lost their patience…

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James Surowiecki
GEN
Writer for

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.