metbo?! I like it!
I agree with the posters here that with a sense of nationalism and with incentives one could ask their popu to lose weight. I think it is a cost effective and healthy measure. And I think something does need to be done. However, I dont like the idea of taking that personal of a freedom away. I dont think if it were put to a vote that I would back it. It is just too intrusive I think.
And I certainly dont like the idea of hiring/firing people based on physical attributes good or bad, nor do I like that there is a particular age group addressed.
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The government initiative, which kicked in April 1, requires companies to have workers aged 40 to 74 take up the battle of the bulge by requiring waist measurements at health checkups -- part of the nation's larger efforts to guard against the ballooning costs of medical care, estimated at $285 billion a year.
If companies don't shape up, they will in effect be penalized by the government in five years, by having to shoulder a bigger portion of the annual $95 billion in private-sector payments that feed into a government-run national health care insurance for people 75 and older, under new laws.
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