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When employees are unhealthy, the damage extends beyond their diminished contribution to the work place—felt through numerous sick days or inability to complete tasks—to a hindrance on the American healthcare system. For this reason, subsidizing programs that encourage healthful choices will ultimately benefit the U.S. A healthier labor force is both more productive and less draining on the health care system as a whole...
...More emphasis on prevention and wellness: Pure common sense tells you that it's much cheaper not to get sick in the first place. But there is little financial incentive for the health-care industry in that regard. Obama says he intends to change that. Here, however, some employers are taking the lead. As Obama noted after his meeting with the business executives: "When you hear what Safeway or Johnson & Johnson or any of these other companies have done, what you've seen is sustained experimentation over many years and a shift in incentive structures so that employees see concrete...
...possible, it's not safe. You only want to work out like that when you're being medically supervised. We have doctors who have to approve everything I do. I also have a nutritionist and a dietician. And the people who come to the show are very sick! They are 400 pounds! It's very different when you have less than 50 pounds to lose...
...virus similar to H1N1 in the past, which might give them some immunity. Or it may be that young people simply encountered H1N1 more often in the early days of the outbreak. The only thing that's clear is that young people are contracting it and they are getting sick. In the small Mexican town of La Gloria, where the virus appears to have originated in early February, H1N1 infected over 61% of the under-15-year-olds in the community. That's worrying because the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed up to 50 million people, was particularly virulent...
Still, if public-health officials are to keep ahead of the millions of bacteria and viruses that can potentially make us sick, they're going to need all the help they can get. And taking their search outside hospitals and doctors' offices may be an important first step...