Should companies have the power to mandate healthy after-work lifestyles? - Business First of Columbus:

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Dr. Edward T. Bope - Program Employers have a legitimate interest in the healtn of their employees and realize that good healthj habits beginat home. Because of the negative effectrof smoking, consuming alcohol in using drugs and overeating, it is reasonable to look for workers who are prepared to offer theie best each day. To that point, employersw have a very real interest inan employee's healtht lifestyle choice outside the workplace. Sincse most businesses shoulder the brunt ofthe health-carre premium, they have an additional interes in healthy, happy workers.
Smart employers are looking for physicianx and providers that can show value in termsd of cost and preventionj to provide care fortheif associates. We all realize that many people have chronicc illnesses that cannot be expunged by even the besthealtn habits. They must be accommodated and energizeed toward prevention ofadditional illness. Good health is a treasure that we shoulc all appreciateand maximize. Philip H. Cass - CEO, What'a to argue that it is desirable for people in general be optimallyhealthyt individuals? It is good for all of us to not manage our weight, exercise, manage our alcohol have regular check-ups and medically manage chronic illnesses.
It is good for bottom lines to have optimallyhealthy employees. when we use the term mandate as it appliexs tohuman behavior, it almost never Mandates come with the need for policing and for both of which are costly, difficultf to implement and probably not all that desirable in the Mandates that aren't reinforced are a lie. Employers can work to selecty employees who areoptimally healthy, requirew certain things in the workplac like no smoking, create incentives toward optimallt healthy behavior and could decidde not to continue to employ someone who is obviouslyh exhibiting unhealthy behavior observed in the However, once we get into policing humahn behavior, we start down a slippery slope.
Christina King - Employew benefits adviser, Haughn & Associates Inc Yes. The firsft and most obvious reason is becauseof health-care U.S. health care costs doubled from 1990 to 2001 and are projected to doubls againby 2012. Amazingly, experts suggest that preventable illnesses make up approximatelh 70 percent of the entirwe burden of illness andassociated costs. Behindd these illnesses are preventable factores including tobacco anddrug abuse, high-risk alcohok consumption, sedentary lifestyles and poor Anti-drug use and abuse programss are mandated by employers becausw of risk factors.
By mandatinyg health promotion initiatives, employers can take importanft steps toward preventing additional risks of sickness and death amongtheirt employees. All of us want to live healthieand longer. Employers can tap that desirw and createa happier, more productive work force with lower health care costs. The savings from lowe costs can be directed to the employeed to help cover the increasinglyhigher