In my experience, having worked in corporate "Wellness" related business objectives, I think there are two mentalities to approaching improving well-being and p

In my experience, having worked in corporate "Wellness" related business objectives, I think there are two mentalities to approaching improving well-being and productivity, 1) The Carrot, and 2) The Stick. In scenario 1) the company provides resources (time, opportunities for exercise, dietary advantages like coupons) and hopes for a good outcome. They offer incentives. In scenario 2) the company jacks up everybody's rates and offers "Discounts" to people who willingly submit to having their biological markers reviewed and stored in a database, and to be "under the thumb" of "Coaches" who call to "check in" on progress. The only incentive is fiscal, and the company gets to off-load a bit more of its financial obligation...and, in the US where wages are stagnant, it punishes working class folks. There's a lot of feel-good talk about option 1) but in my experience Top-Down leadership highly prefers option 2) and that bothers me. Mostly because BMI is often bullshit and sharing PHI is also bullshit to get around some HIPAA protections. Now with lots of cancer survivors on the books, insurance companies want to recoup the actuarial risk by increasing premiums on the corporate employer, and the corporate employer wants to find ways to kick the cost downward so, you know, shareholders will be happy. I do sincerely believe this is the way it works in the US. I do not like it.