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Financial penalties for the unhealthy? Ethical guidelines for holding employees responsible for their health.
- Source :
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Health affairs (Project Hope) [Health Aff (Millwood)] 2009 May-Jun; Vol. 28 (3), pp. 845-52. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- As health care costs continue to rise, an increasing number of self-insured employers are using financial rewards or penalties to promote healthy behavior and control costs. These incentive programs have triggered a backlash from those concerned that holding employees responsible for their health, particularly through the use of penalties, violates individual liberties and discriminates against the unhealthy. This paper offers an ethical analysis of employee health incentive programs and presents an argument for a set of conditions under which penalties can be used in an ethical and responsible way to contain health care costs and encourage healthy behavior among employees.
- Subjects :
- Choice Behavior
Chronic Disease prevention & control
Coercion
Ethics, Medical
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act economics
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ethics
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act statistics & numerical data
Humans
Medication Adherence
Paternalism
United States
Chronic Disease economics
Employee Incentive Plans economics
Employee Incentive Plans ethics
Financing, Personal economics
Financing, Personal ethics
Guidelines as Topic
Health Behavior
Health Benefit Plans, Employee economics
Health Benefit Plans, Employee ethics
Health Care Costs ethics
Life Style
Motivation
Social Responsibility
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1544-5208
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Health affairs (Project Hope)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19414897
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.28.3.845