Comments on: Wellness Programs Confront Big Brother http://healthblog.ncpa.org/wellness-programs-confront-big-brother/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 16:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Linda Gorman http://healthblog.ncpa.org/wellness-programs-confront-big-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-53732 Linda Gorman Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:27:11 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8887#comment-53732 This is a fairly strange thing to put up front in the article. Employer insurance is currently experience rated, not medically underwritten. Individual genetic risk for type 2 diabetes is unknown and at present non-genetic risk scores are better predictors. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075150?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=12] Why would one ask about parents' cholesterol when you can measure it directly in an individual? Finally, virtually everyone interviewed at the end said that wellness programs would be fine without the probibited data. This is a fairly strange thing to put up front in the article. Employer insurance is currently experience rated, not medically underwritten.

Individual genetic risk for type 2 diabetes is unknown and at present non-genetic risk scores are better predictors. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075150?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=12]

Why would one ask about parents’ cholesterol when you can measure it directly in an individual?

Finally, virtually everyone interviewed at the end said that wellness programs would be fine without the probibited data.

]]> By: Stephen C. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/wellness-programs-confront-big-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-53718 Stephen C. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:09:30 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8887#comment-53718 Title should be "Wellness confronts Bureaucratic Idiocy." Title should be “Wellness confronts Bureaucratic Idiocy.”

]]> By: Greg http://healthblog.ncpa.org/wellness-programs-confront-big-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-53699 Greg Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:26:11 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8887#comment-53699 This is one more example of government meddling pushing up the cost of health care. This is one more example of government meddling pushing up the cost of health care.

]]> By: Vicki http://healthblog.ncpa.org/wellness-programs-confront-big-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-53698 Vicki Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:20:50 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8887#comment-53698 This is truly mindboggling. This is truly mindboggling.

]]> By: Tom H. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/wellness-programs-confront-big-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-53697 Tom H. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:17:30 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=8887#comment-53697 So much for Obama's idea of saving money by promoting wellness. So much for Obama’s idea of saving money by promoting wellness.

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