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'Dirty Girls'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My mother pointed out that Michael is too Irish to be in there.
So, new program at my university: submit to a "health screening," or pay an extra $100 a month for health insurance. The screening seems to be cholesterol, glucose, weight, waist circumference, and filling out an online survey about health and wellness habits.
A hundred dollars a MONTH?! That's horrifying. There's some challenge thing going on at my office, but you just get free six weeks at the gym. (at the gym I'll never go to, because it's full of coworkers.)
Yep. $100 a month. [link]
That's insane.
We've got that thing too, Hil, we attend quarterly lectures and fill out quizzes at the end. So far nothing invasive or participatory.
A month????
We get a one time $100 bonus if we do submit, but I haven't yet because I a) have a little paranoid/conspiracy theory that it will be someday used against me and b) I am fat and will fail the BMI, and possibly waist circumference. I used to work in the department that administers them, and they do everything so manually that I can't believe that the data can't be traced back to me somehow.
Hil,
I have been following that because a lot of faculty at Penn State are ticked. It's in the Chronicle I think.
My previous place encouraged all kinds of wellness behaviors through multiple email messages because if they got a certain percentage to enroll in this or that, we got a group discount.
submit to a "health screening," or pay an extra $100 a month for health insurance.
For comparison, at my workplace I have to complete the annual health screening in order to qualify to enroll in the healthcare plan at all.
But if I jump through some extra hoops (things like providing documentation of my dental exams, my vision exam, and my flu shot) I can get up to $250 on my company rewards debit card.