Nothing insurance companies do ever stays voluntary. At some, it will be a condition of wearing it to get insurance and the cost of insurance will include how well you live up to the metrics.
Absolutely.
Logan’s Run
Like the stock market, insurance is just “officially sanctioned” gambling.
Ayn Rand predicted this in Atlas Shrugged. She also penned an article warning against Medicare in the 60’s. She tried to warn Americans where these do gooder programs lead.
Once the inevitable happens and Insurance companies collapse, our health insurance company will be the Internal Revenue Service. The most feared agency in the U.S. I shudder to think how this will play out.
>>>”At some, it will be a condition..”
This would be a concern only in a non-competitive market. In a competitive market if this condition was not worth the benefit, it would fail.
I think you have something there. Lower health care (and life insurance) premiums if you wear the company Apple Watch that reports back to the mothership your amount of daily walking, your resting heart rate, and with a bluetooth enabled scale, your weight.
Just like the Progressive insurance's Snapshot device for your car.
Yup. This is the camel's nose under the tent. The insidious nature of fascism is that, even when the government isn't directly monitoring you 24/7, the corporate cronies will be more than happy to do the job for it.
Sickening.
MORE technology is going to simplify our lives and our "healthcare processes." What planet do these people live on? If you want simple, go for a walk or run, ride your bike, play tennis or swim. Sheesh...21st century lunacy.