Major life insurer says it will require customers to wear health trackers

NBC "News" ^ | September 20, 2018 | by Reuters

[Intolerant in NJ]

Oh Lordy - they cover our long term care insurance - guess we better get in line.....

[Migraine]

Corporate puts public on short leash? Is that the headline here?

Will our diet be soylent green?

[Phillyred]

So close.

[DannyTN]

That’s what I was thinking.

Why don’t they just stamp 666 on their forehead and make a deal with the devil.

[Hattie]

Everybody wins?

[ptsal]

Model 666

[Yaelle]

Omg, I have got to get me some life insurance! I’m wasting a healthy lifestyle not saving $!

[neverevergiveup]

Here's what I propose. Let's have ‘tracker’ devices for John Hancock and all insurance companies. On a daily, hourly by hourly basis the payroll of the company, all CEO and management compensation, all vacation time, travel time and expense, and hours worked for all decision-making employees / management will be monitored and reported to all who hold policies from the company (all will have continuous access to real-time data).

There will be ‘goals’ for financial solvency of these companies, costs to the consumers, and the percentages of total costs that management salaries, bonuses, benefits, and vacation time represent as a function of revenues. It will be a ‘fit bit’ for executives, and if they fail to reach specific milestones - determined specifically and exclusively by policy holders, they will receive commensurately less compensation and will accumulate demerits. After a certain number of demerits they can be dismissed without further cause - with no severance over and above what the average of all non-management employees are given as severance packages.

[Yaelle]

Policy revocation if the GPS detects you inside a McDonalds?

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Now see, that’s not fair! I go in there to use the bathrooms sometimes!

[a fool in paradise]

Mark of The Beast

[frank ballenger]

Headline should be Bankrupt Former Health Insurer Requires....

[Yaelle]

I’d like to track the politicians in Sacramento like this! If they want our votes, they need to spend 40% or less time drunk or having sex with lobbyists! I think that is fair, but they’d never agree to such a whopping cutback.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Part of me likes the responsibility for healthy life style being thrust upon the insurance consumer, but I hate the invasion of privacy.

Well the two are more or less chained together at the wrists and ankles.

[Celerity]

Exactly, the article itself has a correction - Users can opt in.

There are many insurers now in the US that have opt-ins like this. I invented one !

[a fool in paradise]

Walter Cronkite would’ve proudly handed you over to the Devil for his one world government wet dream.

[C210N]

Ironically named after a man who risked death to take a stand for PERSONAL FREEDOM....

Also, this is the company that when I was a kid in the 60's, one could write them to get a free pocket Constitution.

[DoughtyOne]

Policies in place...

CHECK!

[Texas resident]

I would put one of these on my dog.
Gets a balanced meal, gets lots of exercise, sleeps well and doesn’t go into “banned” establishments.

woof

[taxcontrol]

Nope, not for me.

[frank ballenger]

I know just what you mean. All the chip implants under skin, shadow banning, Google censorship, ID theft, tracking of beliefs,Samsung watching through Smart TV front camera,etc is trending downward fast.