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Originally Posted by Carla B
Obviously, company-sponsored health insurance is changing for employees. My daugther's large employer offers a monetary incentive. They will deposit money in the employees' HSA if the employee can meet all of the following markers: nonsmoker, blood pressure in normal range, cholesterol under 200, and BMI under a certain number (I forget the number).
She missed the BMI number. Her weight vs. height was off by a pound. She was classified as overweight, even though she wears a size 4 pants! Therefore, the BMI must not take bone structure into consideration.
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Carla you are spot on. My wife's employer did th same thing changing behavior via incentives. If this is a civil rights issue and some government/insurance employee is going to try and dictate to me what i do then I am going to the local ACLU...and the ACLU is not my favorite organization The medical experts keep geting it wrong . Recent reports just explained that BMI is an inaccurate measurement because essentially it comaprs wight to height but doesn't account for the fact that the weight can be mostly muscle or mostly fat. GEEEZZZZZZ. Nanny government get out of my face once and for all. I'm all grow'd up and can really think for myself