Preventive medicine and healthy habits have been the watchword for decades. The idea that new prevention measures will substantially decrease health care spending is laughable. These incentives (or more likely mandates) will probably increase health care costs in the short run. Employers have little control over the health habits of their employees. Many employees with poor health habits have long established conditions.
Will those of us who have been leading healthy lifestyles be getting retroactive rewards or do we have to let ourselves go then reap the ‘rewards’ after we’re declared fit? How many times can we recycle fat to rewards? Show me da money cuz I be fit....for now.
This would be a "keep your tires inflated" program for health care.