Healthier government hirelings retire at age 50 and use their gold-plated Cadillac health care plans to age 100. The only thing this is going to "save" the taxpayers is from having to lug around any money anymore.
While it varies, some government bureaucracies are filled with the fattest people you will ever see together under one taxpayer funded roof. Most modern diseases are related to obesity but it would be impossible to go after the government fatties as they are often the vast majority.
I hate this. I work for an institution that makes it “optional” to submit to a physical that looks at a variety of factors such as weight, blood sugar, BMI, health habits involving eating and smoking, etc.
If you submit, you get $500 off your insurance plan.
That is all fine and dandy, and completely an independent observation from the concept of what is being done with the information.
But having observed human behavior, it is inevitable that at some point, the “discount” (having $500 lopped off for participating) is going to turn into a penalty (having $500 added on for NOT participating)
To my wife’s irritation, I refused to accept going through the “physical” to get the $500 off. They can do what they like, I was just not going to submit to it and legitimize the activity.
My wife loves me, but we don’t see eye to eye philosophically on this, and she was not pleased when the deadline passed.