Employers Tell Workers To Get Healthy or Pay Up

[flashl]

Employers Tell Workers To Get Healthy or Pay

In an effort to motivate workers to kick unhealthy habits, U.S. companies are hitting them where it hurts: in their wallets.

Employers who provide health insurance often use financial incentives, such as contributions toward premiums, to encourage workers to participate in wellness programs like smoking-cessation courses.

Now some employers are wielding a stick as well as a carrot. Employees at some companies who are overweight, smoke, or have high cholesterol, for instance, and who don't participate in supplementary wellness programs, will pay more for health insurance. In extreme cases, employees' insurance deductibles could rise by $2,000.

"The bottom line," says Tom Parry, president of the Integrated Benefits Institute, a nonprofit focused on health issues, "is that employers want to see results."

Read More ...

Its been clear to me for some time that the America we have been taught to believe in, never existed.

Henry Peter Brougham said, "Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

Have we proven ourselves to be "uneducated"? When will America wake up to realize it is bound in wage slavery.

[ixion]

1. but make sure and keep performing on your high stress job... work out on your own time

do your work on your own time, too, so you can spend all day in bogus meetings while at the corporation.

:grr:

[flashl]

2. Ahh, those highly productive and motivational meetings.

[tanyev]

3. My employer has a really good wellness program.

I can't participate because I'm only a part-time employee.