Yeah I think most americans love no access to healthcare insurance and coverage.
WHAT WE NEED IS MORE PEOPLE IN THE DC BELTWAY TO FIGURE OUT HOW JOE BROWN IN MORRISTOWN OKLAHOMA CAN GET BETTER HEALTH INSURANCE!!!
No one is interested in americans having access to better healthcare, the system works perfectly for those the system serves, the profiteers of the "job creator" class.
GOP Bill Would Let Your Employer Demand to See Your Genetic Information
So what are employers actually after when they implement wellness programs tied to large financial incentives? Cost-shifting. Under the ACA, wellness programs are a legal way to shift a significant portion of the cost of premiums onto employees deemed unhealthy. Wellness programs don’t save money by preventing expensive medical claims—and in fact, they might even increase claims costs due to encouraging unnecessary doctors’ visits. But wellness programs can save money if enough employees fail them or opt out.
This conclusion isn’t just supported by
virtually every study on corporate-wellness programs that isn’t funded by those who profit from them. It’s also supported by common sense. Many serious health conditions aren’t especially sensitive to behavior (asthma, Crohn’s disease, etc.). And those that can be impacted by lifestyle interventions aren’t common in the working-age population. As Anderson writes, “cancer, heart attacks, stroke, and diabetes usually don’t hit until retirement, even among people who have had bad habits all along.”
Now that it’s public knowledge that the story behind the Safeway Amendment was a lie — and that there is little science to support that lie’s broader premise — you might think that Congress would scrap the provision.
If so, you don’t know Congress.
Rather than roll back the Safeway Amendment, the House GOP is working to expand its reach. Per
Stat News:
A little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.
Giving employers such power is now prohibited by legislation including the 2008 genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law known as GINA. The new bill gets around that landmark law by stating explicitly that GINA and other protections do not apply when genetic tests are part of a “
workplace wellness” program.
The House’s bill is one part of “phase two” of the GOP’s health-insurance-reform plan — a package of regulatory reforms that can’t pass through the reconciliation process, and, thus, need Democratic votes in the Senate.
The American Benefits Council, which represents large employers, argues that their inability to coerce workers into presenting their genetic information puts “at risk the availability and effectiveness of workplace wellness programs,” thereby depriving employees of “improved health and productivity.”
GOP Bill Would Let Your Employer Demand to See Your Genetic Information
