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Lifestyle Behaviors: Evaluating Behaviors That May Justify Increasing the Employee’s Cost for Employer-Provided Health Insurance

East Carolina University

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	Abstract

Responding to the increasing cost of employer-provided health insurance, some employers have instituted a number of cost-savings efforts such as reduced benefits, limited access, increased copayments, differential premiums and wellness programs. Of interest in this article are cost abatement efforts that focus on lifestyle behaviors that can adversely influence insurance costs. If such efforts are to succeed, it will require employee acceptance of these efforts. This article presents information that identifies lifestyle behaviors that might reasonably receive support for such differential treatment.

First published on September 24, 2009, doi:10.1177/0886368709346691

Compensation & Benefits Review 2009;41:49.

A more recent version of this article appeared on November 1, 2009


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