Members of Congress announced the introduction of health care legislation yesterday. A provision in the Senate bill would increase the insurance discount companies can offer to employees who take steps like losing weight.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/ Associated Press)
Healthy habits may cut price of insurance
Senate bill offers workers incentive
Members of Congress announced the introduction of health care legislation yesterday. A provision in the Senate bill would increase the insurance discount companies can offer to employees who take steps like losing weight.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/ Associated Press)
Workers who quit smoking, lose weight, and eat right could have their health insurance premiums cut by as much as half, possibly saving them thousands of dollars per year, under a measure inserted with little notice this week into the Senate healthcare overhaul bill. (Full article: 959 words)
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