Your boss will weigh you now

From Junkfood Science (where you can find the full article): Employers will now perform random tests of employees for evidence that they’ve smoked outside of work and will weigh employees in the workplace and report their BMIs to the state. Employees deemed noncompliant with the State Health Plan’s employer wellness initiative, will pay one-third-more for health insurance. Employers believed that eliminating smokers and fat people would lower health costs. But what if many of the assumptions behind this and other measures are wrong? What if, counter-intuitive as it seems, they raise costs, not reduce them?

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