Aetna's CEO pays workers up to $500 to sleep

Post by Godel_unicode » Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 10:33 PM UTC

thefrostytruth wrote: post #27

Godel_unicode wrote: post #13

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I'm curious how you see a voluntary program to pay employees to do something they should be doing anyway is creepy and/or overreach?

I understand that it's voluntary, but the company has literally followed its employee into the bedroom, via remote sensor. It's easy to see how that might be unsettling to some, even to suggest, "hey, wear this leash on your off hours, and I'll give you extra money."

That's hyperbolic, don't you think? Is there anything in this policy that says you have to wear it anytime other than when you're actually sleeping? Put it on when you're ready to actually sleep, take it off when the alarm goes off. Rinse and repeat.

Post by darawk » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 2:03 AM UTC

chefkoch wrote: post #47

darawk wrote: post #34

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I wish I could upvote this more than once. In my view, this is one of the fundamental problems with the healthcare system in the US. People may not love car insurance - but it's a far cry from the vitriol reserved for medical insurance. And I think this issue is the fundamental cause of that problem. I want to be insured against rare, ultra high cost events that would otherwise wipe me out financially. I don't want t…

And do you want to be insured against a chronic illness that will require regular not that expensive doctors visits like rheumatism or gout?

I mean, obviously it's a spectrum. I think for me personally i'd opt not to be insured for that. But I wouldn't say that someone who does is being unreasonable.

My point is just that with insurance companies being expected to should literally all medical costs, price signaling is taken out of the market, and that is a bad thing.

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