Healthy Behaviors Could Cut Insurance Premiums in Senate Bill - Health Blog - WSJ

Healthy lifestyle choices could cut health-insurance premiums in half for some people under a provision of a health-reform bill working its way through the Senate, the Boston Globe reports. The detail hasn’t drawn much notice, despite the fact that such carrot-and-stick measures are usually controversial. The bipartisan agreement by the Senate health committee, which came Monday night, says that employees who improve their health habits by eating well, losing weight and quitting smoking can receive a discount of up to 30% from companies offering group health insurance, should the bill become law. That discount could be boosted to much as 50% by the Obama administration. Currently, the law limits the maximum discount to 20%. Full Post: Healthy Behaviors Could Cut Insurance Premiums in Senate Bill - Health Blog - WSJ