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The Value of Workplace Health Promotion (Wellness) Programs
By RON GOETZEL The recent Health Affairs Blog post by Al Lewis, Vik Khanna, and Shana Montrose titled, “Workplace Wellness Produces No Savings” has triggered much interest and media attention. It...
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Commentology: The Real Professor Baicker
By THCBist Influential RAND researcher Soren Mattke had this to say in support of Al Lewis and Vik Khanna’s latest post on the Wellness story “Would the Real Professor Katherine Baicker Please Stand...
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Does the ACA Actually Mandate Free Checkups?
By CHRISTIAN GLASON “Where in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) does it mandate that every health insurance policy must include a free annual checkup?” I posed this question to Al Lewis and Vik Khanna in...
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The Ten Worst Wellness Programs and What They Do to Harm Employees
By AL LEWIS and VIK KHANNA If corporate wellness didn’t already exist, no one would invent it. In that sense, it’s a little like communism, baseball, or Outlook. After all, why would any company want...
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Genetic Testing: The New Frontier of Wellness Madness
By AL LEWIS The Wall Street Journal just reported that Genetic Testing May Be Coming to Your Office Soon. This is all well and good, assuming employees would want their health insurer’s buddies...
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By AL LEWIS and VIK KHANNA Suppose there were: (1) a widely held but false perception that gays had lower productivity and higher healthcare costs than straights; (2) false literature that companies...
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PCMH Fails Natural Experiment
By AL LEWIS Medical Homes Fail Yet Another “Natural Experiment” Three “natural experiments,” three failures. Such is the fate of patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), a well-intentioned but...
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The “Back Story” of the JAMA Wellness Smackdown (Part 1)
By AL LEWIS Let’s climb into the WABAC Machine (and, yes, that’s the way it’s spelled) and set the dial for 2008. Then-candidate Barack Obama, campaigning on the promise of universal health coverage,...
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The “Back Story” of the JAMA Wellness Smackdown (Part 2)
By AL LEWIS Part 2 picks up where Part 1 left off, as coincidence would have it. Soeren Mattke (as mentioned in the last installment) and I were quite relentless in trying, quixotically, to get...
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Zeev Neuwirth Reframes Primary Care…Brilliantly
By AL LEWIS I would urge THCB-ers to read Reframing Healthcare by Dr. Zeev Neuwirth. While much of the territory he covers will be familiar to those of us with an interest in healthcare reform...
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