CVS strong arming employees

[The Bilingual Gringo]

I read earlier tonight Chase takes life insurance polices out on their employees

"Key Man" policies are very common for organizations, I mainly see these on a smaller level though.

Seems that there has been a battle of weight becoming the new "smoking" with group health policies like these.

 

[Malik]

I read earlier tonight Chase takes life insurance polices out on their employees

Most companies do actually. Its a dirty, dirty secret tho. I read a while ago about how some woman was struggling to bury her husband, dealing with how their family was going to survive with him gone.....meanwhile his firm had took out a $1 million policy

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

So people are mad now that companies are holding their employees accountable for their own health before they agree to pay their insurance? The nation of entitled brats never cease to amaze me. If CVS is paying for the health insurance, why shouldn't they expect their employees to do their part in staying in good health?

All those who refuse to take annual check ups and/or work to improve their health in any way they can should have to pay for their own insurance.

 

[omnifax]

I work for Walgreens and they have something similar but its voluntary. Depending on your test results they will put a certain amount of money in an account (HSA) that you can use for your doctors visits, prescriptions, etc. I haven't done it though due to the fact that I don't think they really need to know all of that and I do make regular visits to the doctor, dentist, and optometrist. I agree with one of the statements in the article that for low/minimum wage employees its not really a choice. I would like to know what happens if an employee has bad results? Do they offer a membership to a fitness club with a trainer to help them get into shape? Provide counseling or support if they have diabetes or high blood pressure? Or do they just fire them stating some other reason like they were late for work 3 times in the past month? What they do with the information is very important.

 

[Yapdatfool]

They should charge less if your healthy

How much you wanna bet they dont??

And supporters of this shyt, what % does an employer have to pay in order for it to be a good idea? 1%, 100%?? Over 50%?

Ooh, ooh, what about those with disabilities, guess they wont be getting hired, can't afford them? And here I thought you couldn't discriminate against them...