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Alabama to Obese Employees: Address the Issue, or Pay for Insurance

Posted on August 29, 2008

What good is screening people for health risks, if those at risk don t do anything about it? That s the rationale that pushed Alabama to start charging state employees who don t act to address obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, all of which raise the risks heart attacks, strokes and other health problems. We ve being doing the health screenings for 15 years and the number of folks who have these risk factors hasnt changed. People just didn t follow-up on their results, William Ashmore, executive director of the State Employees Insurance Board told the Health B...

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