Health care anyone?

Do you believe that if employers are expected to share health care costs with employees, employers can expect healthier employee lifestyles?

only during the hours I'm paid...I would appreciate a power nap,massage,and some gym time...

Not necessarily. Many people will probably continue their poor eating habits and not exercise. Employers can't exactly change how people act outside the office.

Health care benefits are a part of your pay. They are like many other incentives to work for a company. Employers that pay all or part of employee health care premiums are no more entitled to decide what is or is not healthy than anyone else.

And who would make that determination? Maybe placing such a demand on employees results in a less healthy lifestyle.

Besides, it is not all company money. Every time a company sells a product or provides a service, it charges more for your time than it pays you for that time. Part of that difference (between what they bill the client for your time and what they actually pay you) goes into paying for you own benefits.

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Did you make up that particular theory of human behavior by yourself?

How do you explain the fact that people live longer in developed countries with national health care? Even Canadians rank above the US in health care and the number of healthy years a person can expect to live.

FYI, the US ranks 37th:

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland

http://www.who.int/whr/2000/media_centre...

By letting people avoid the responsibility of paying for their own health care, you can expect less healthy people. There's no incentive to be healthy if someone else is footing the bill.

are you really asking if they should?

I know some places will not let employees smoke. Not many, but some. That would anger me. Not because I'm a smoker, but because I dont think it reall effects the employer that much. I mean, hell, by the time smoking catches up with a person, they probably wont be employed there anymore.