Ala. To Charge Obese Workers $25 Monthly – KXAS | Dallas — Talk about a money maker. Alabama? Obese? Cha-ching!
I know, I could have gone for the cheap joke, but…
Alabama, pushed to second in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat.
The state has given its 37,527 employees a year to start getting fit or they’ll pay $25 a month for insurance that otherwise is free.
Alabama will be the first state to charge overweight state workers who don’t work on slimming down, while a handful of other states reward employees who adopt healthy behaviors.
Alabama already charges workers who smoke and has seen some success in getting them to quit but now has turned its attention to a problem that plagues many in the Deep South: obesity.
#39 – O’Furniture
Try this, for starters:
http://tinyurl.com/6pfxjt
Your ignorance about basic physiology is breathtaking.
If you think that fat people can slim down just by 86′ing the Big Macs and Snickers bars (which most of them don’t eat to begin with), then you’re a lost cause.
I think you’re spending too much time at Wal*Mart.
Mister Mustard, I usually agree with you on almost all fronts. However, claiming Paddy-O doesn’t know anything about physiology based on his precept that you need to burn more calories than you take in to lose weight, is clearly not inline with science. Type 2 diabetes is growing faster among poor populations exactly because of poor food choices usually based on affordability, which makes fast food and candy options topping the food pyramid. AS a Type 1 diabetic, I am putting an anabolic steroid into my body 24/7. If I didn’t commute by bike everyday my body would gain weight that would allow for more complications. I choose my lifestyle to stay healthy. Many (not all) people can do the same thing.
#37–Bubba==something is amiss. If you understand “risk pooling” then you really should understand premium calculation====it has to cover the risk plus more for other expenses. So==yes, in a perfect statistical model, if you can self insure you always should. Course, most people can not, so they buy insurance.
Now, smoker vs non-smoker is just a tool to guess at the risk and it averages out/is statistically meaningful only in a risk pool. Absolutely no different than dna testing with certain results being more definite than others and none of it meaning a thing until it is pooled and the premium calculated.
I wonder where I difference in understanding is other than where you are flat wrong and I assume you misspoke?
#41 – Yep, as I thought. If your intake falls below your cal burn rate you lose weight.
It’s the same mechanism that causes people to lose weight when they don’t eat.
Oh, yeah. Turn in your diploma’s. Not thet you posses any… LOL