From Truth Out?..
Why do we get sick and how do we get well were the enormously complex and controversial questions explored by a gathering of labor and community activists, health policy experts and academics attending a one-day conference at the University of California Berkeley on July 27th. In particular, speakers critically reviewed corporate Wellness Programs that essentially blame personal habits like smoking and excessive eating for poor health and for ballooning medical costs. Under the soothing, holistic rubric of ?Wellness,? these employer-sponsored programs are ostensibly designed to improve health. For example, most programs urge employees to stop smoking, lose weight, improve cholesterol and lower blood pressure. These goals appear quite laudable.
Seems like a good idea, everyone wins. Employees get healthier and companies save money on rising health insurance costs? However, opening speaker Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute, dryly observed, it seems almost too good to be true. Get my drift? It seems wellness programs are a mixed bag, some do better than others. But they are most ineffectual when following the uniform business model of faulting workers, in this case, for causing steep increases in health care costs.
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