How about a tax break for staying healthy?
Senators Max Baucus, D-MT, and Tom Harkin, D-IA, are drafting legislation to use tax incentives as an incentive for businesses to develop a healthier workforce through employer-sponsored wellness programs.
“Prevention and wellness should be a centerpiece of healthcare reform,” said Harkin, who regularly climbs the stairs to his seventh-floor office on Capitol Hill.
Certainly seems like a common sense approach, as employees with elevated cholesterol and blood pressure, poor blood glucose control and excess weight are more likely to get sick, develop chronic disease, experience absence and disability and over utilize their fair share of expensive healthcare resources, making U.S. firms less competitive and makes the tax incentive concept seem like a no-brainer.
Maybe. But there’s a more efficient and practical alternative without enacting yet another undue burden on business: Personal tax incentives to adults and their dependents for achieving and maintaining healthy body weight. See here to see how.
To facilitate public participation, a grass-roots social marketing campaign should be undertaken. One of President Obama’s eight principles for health legislation is that it must “invest in prevention and wellness. Yes we can.
Senators Max Baucus, D-MT, and Tom Harkin, D-IA, are drafting legislation to use tax incentives as an incentive for businesses to develop a healthier workforce through employer-sponsored wellness programs.
“Prevention and wellness should be a centerpiece of healthcare reform,” said Harkin, who regularly climbs the stairs to his seventh-floor office on Capitol Hill.
Certainly seems like a common sense approach, as employees with elevated cholesterol and blood pressure, poor blood glucose control and excess weight are more likely to get sick, develop chronic disease, experience absence and disability and over utilize their fair share of expensive healthcare resources, making U.S. firms less competitive and makes the tax incentive concept seem like a no-brainer.
Maybe. But there’s a more efficient and practical alternative without enacting yet another undue burden on business: Personal tax incentives to adults and their dependents for achieving and maintaining healthy body weight. See here to see how.
To facilitate public participation, a grass-roots social marketing campaign should be undertaken. One of President Obama’s eight principles for health legislation is that it must “invest in prevention and wellness. Yes we can.
