Cashin In IBM offers smart incentive to employees to get healthy. GOP suggests this negates HCR need

[stevenleser]

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The Cashin' In crew plus Steve Leser discuss IBMs successful plan to offer $150 to employees and their families if they adopted healthy diets and exercised. Conservatives suggest that this means that health care reform is not needed. Steve Leser disagrees...

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. That's the ticket. Offer people $150 and they'll stop getting sick.

Yay, the free market works if you simply give people incentives, otherwise they'll choose to be sick and unhealthy every time.

:sarcasm: 'cuz you never know.

[wilt the stilt]

2. this group along with IBM

couldn't be more out of touch. Let me put it as tactfully as possible. "GO OUT AND BUY YOUR OWN FUCKING INSURANCE YOU ASSHOLES AND SEE WHAT YOU GET"

THAT IS ALL

[Turbineguy]

3. They would be right

if everybody worked for IBM.

But John Galt wouldn't work there.

[butterfly77]

4. Yes,then we can all get really healthy..

from all of the genetically modified food they and e-coli laced strawberries,spinach,peanuts,tomatoes,and nasty chicken that they put on the market while they BET on which areas they will put it in,how much their stock will got up as look at their portfolis and plan their next attack on Americans and the rest of the world.

Then they move on to the their insurance companies and BET on how many of us will get sick from the food,then raises premiums,send in their pharmeceutical DRUG DEALERS to our clinics or dr offices to use us as guinea pigs for their drugs and the cycle goes on and on. I could say more,care to add..

[tridim]

5. Similar to what's happening here..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9319025&mesg_id=9319025

I guess I'm the odd man out, but IMO this sounds like a great idea.

Getting healthy is not bad, ever.

[54anickel]

6. I think it's great to promote a healthy lifestyle, as long as it doesn't lead people to

twist it around and infer that sick people somehow deserve to be sick. Like the fallacy that a diabetic ate their way to the condition. I can see this leading to a "blame the victim" mentality.

I have no problem with them offering $150 to adopt healthy diets and exercise. But if they expect a certain outcome from that (ie reduced BMI, blood pressure or blood glucose) and it doesn't happen, will they attempt to reclaim that $150 prize in higher premiums?