Question

1.Having an unusually high number of children is a lifestyle choice resulting in higher health care costs for employers. Would an employment policy that charged employee-parents just as much as smokers and obese employees be ethical? Why should the number of children involve the same ethical considerations as smokers or obese people?

• Is it an ethical obligation for employers to subsidize any of the costs associated with child bearing or the health care of children generally? Is it ethical for employers to provide hidden subsidizes to families with an unusually high number of children through their disproportionate allocation of health care costs?

Answer 1

When it comes to an ethical consideration of an employer covering insurance  to their employee is legal with their children legally but having more number of children cannot be taken ethically considerable.Providing hidden subsidy to higher number of children cannot be considered ethical when dispropotinating allocation of health care cost. This will increase the expenditure to the employers.Certain employers to meet this limit the coverage to spouse and two childrens only.