CVS Ordering Workers To Reveal Weight, Health Info

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[latina4dubya]

He was a model of physical fitness and that helped him lived for 10 years with Alzheimer's. Yea, that was really cost effective.

are you saying it would have been more cost effective had he been overweight with high blood pressure and high cholesterol and maybe even diabetic with Alzheimer's? i'm sorry that i don't understand...

[a fool in paradise]

Some thoughts:

Reveal your weight, but not your height.

Reveal your weight on the moon.

Have them guess your weight and you get a prize off the top shelf if they are wrong.

[Jack of all Trades]

I’m not an actuary, but I doubt that single instances weigh heavily on risk models for medical insurance.

[a fool in paradise]

Workers must also be tobacco free or enroll in an addiction program by next year.

Something the "dopers rights'" people never understand. Even if/when legalization comes, they may still find that they are unable to partake. Unless they play the homosexuals' game and claim it is a part of who they are and claim discrimination in the workplace.

[steve86]

I actually want limits on how a corporation can treat its employees with respect to health requirements -- especially when it's looking like a trend and the corp is arm-in-arm with Obamacare fascism. This is something the Republicans in the house should be looking at.

[TADSLOS]

Is C.V.S. asking any questions about whether any of their employees are sodomites? The very unhealthiest activities anyone could engage in.

Great question. Unfortunately, we know what the answer is since homosexuals are now officially a protected class.

[3catsanadog]

And I hope that eventually they will require employees to show what kind of activities they do in their spare time. If their activities involve risky sports like sky diving, mountain climbing, car racing, (everyone, add your suggestion here), and so on, then premiums should also increase because of the increased risk in broken bones, spinal injuries, permanent brain damage, etc.

Sooner or later, the bureaucrats will want to fine something you or me or others love to do. It started with the smokers and the smokers warned everyone that it wouldn't stop with them.

[GSWarrior]

I like this concept. Wish my healthcare was billed in proportion to my actual health.

[MrB]

You can pick anything from this shelf, between here and here.

[Larry Lucido]

Eh. I’m glad President Reagan was fit enough to make it to at least age 78 without any serious health problems or obvious cognitive disability (he was even fit enough to survive a gunshot wound at age 70).

[The Louiswu]

So it’s ok for CVS to make money off tobacco, booze, candy bars and soda but can ban their employees from consuming same?

[Jack of all Trades]

I believe the health assessment asks questions about risky activities. I can’t recall. I haven’t filled mine out in a couple of years. I pay the extra premium. Life insurance policies also ask about risk activities.

I’m not arguing for or against here, only discussing the situation as it is now. I’d rather pay cash to my doctor and have my records be under my control.

[lwd]

oh, I get it! It’s a profit deal!

[nascarnation]

can ban their employees from consuming same

Where is that part?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

So it’s ok for CVS to make money off tobacco, booze, candy bars and soda but can ban their employees from consuming same?

If the employees sign a code-of-conduct or contract that prohibits them from consuming those products, then yes.

[beef]

Well, I too am glad Reagan lived to be quite old, and I am not angry that he ran up his bill at the end. But these cost calculations don’t take into account the cost of many more people living to be really old. They are an excuse for control freaks to control things, and, as we have seen here, an opportunity for people to hate in an age where hating is a tightly regulated business.

[beef]

Well, he would have not been hospitalised with Alzheimers for 10 years. Does that not cost anything?

[beef]

“It started with the smokers and the smokers warned everyone that it wouldn't stop with them.”

That is absolutely correct. When the campaigns to stamp out smoking reach their goal, the campaigners will not disband and go back to playing pinochle. They will branch out and find new things to control. That is simply the kind of people they are.

[ican'tbelieveit]

My company has been doing it for the 3rd year now. I just pay the extra. First year it is revealing your weight, other health concerns, then they start offering a myriad of “health” classes that you get points for. Not worth my time to figure out how to fit it into my already busy life.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Among the measures, employees must report their weight, body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Workers must also be tobacco free or enroll in an addiction program by next year.

Well, to be consistent, CVS will have to pull all of the tobacco products, candy and salty snacks off their shelves.