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I don't mind it, in theory, for things that are purely "behavioral", such as smoking. But I worry in practice that it will have a lot of unintended consequences, and potentially be a slippery slope to other things.

Regarding the "obesity", obviously I have my own issue with that if it's purely based on BMI, which is not applicable to everyone. And for a lot of people, weight is not simply behavioral anyway.

In general the less my employer is doing to control my behavior outside the workplace, the better. But we have a system that through historical accident led to employer-based health insurance, so they have an incentive to try to do whatever they can to reduce costs.

I've said before that I favor the Swiss system. If we're basically going to have a level of socialized medicine (and we do, with the mandate and the subsidies), the least we can do is do socialized medicine right. The Swiss system is about as well designed as their watches.

Thanks for answering.  

Smoking is purely behavioral but, as I explained above, I've never been a huge fan of that surcharge because it doesn't actually do anything to encourage different behavior and there isn't a good way to make it incremental and create an incentive for different behavior.  

I agreed with my "gym rat" employees and I'd have no problem with using body-fat percentage.  

I agree on the theory that I'm happier if my employer doesn't try to control my behavior outside of the workplace.  In general I think of that as none of their business but it is their business when that behavior impacts their bottom line so that is an issue.  

For those who are unaware, the historical accident that triggered employer-based health insurance was wage controls during WWII.  Employers couldn't compete on wages to they started adding non-wage items (like health insurance) to get employees and it stuck post-war.  

We may be in or approaching a worst-of-both-worlds point with our level of socialization in medicine.  Sometimes I look at our convoluted system and think that it looks like someone decided to take all the worst features of the private and the socialized systems and mash them together such that we get most of the detriments of both private and socialized systems.  Ie, there is an argument to be made that we'd be better off with either.  

LOL... I do love me some xkcd...

I think Switzerland and Sweden are better countries than America

but, I'm not moving unless I move to Texas

jackwagon

I keep looking for openings at that gigantic company in Round Rock, but not finding anything yet that suits me.

Yup we're never hiring.  You should try Microsoft in Seattle or something.  

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I keep looking for openings at that gigantic company in Round Rock, but not finding anything yet that suits me.

rumor that Apple is moving there

keep Austin weird