Healthy Weight Premium Reductions

Scientific studies show that severely overweight people's health care costs are 40% higher than people who maintain their weight at healthy levels.  

UPDATE:  Obesity Makes You Stupid

Health insurance companies already offer premium reductions for non-smoking, why not offer a healthy weight premium reduction?

All you would need to do to maintain your Healthy Weight Premium Reduction is to appear for an annual physical within 10% of your optimum best healthy weight. 

This encourages people to schedule yearly check ups which are known to reduce health care costs by catching problems early.

Dispensations could be granted to people whose professions require them to maintain certain body weights - fashion models, TV personalities and weight lifters for example.

Money is a great motivator.  Who wants to pay a Fat Tax?

This advances national goals of getting our country to slim down to healthy weights and scheduling annual physical check ups.

Comments?  Disagreements?  Post them below!

MicheleMoore-Happy1.com

Michele Moore is CEO of Happiness Habit and author of the upcoming book Happiness In Hard Times - How To Be Happy When Times Are Tough And Help Others To Be Happy Too!

Comments

[Weight Loss]

Great idea! I'm totally in. It will be a powerfull motivation for obese people to start doing something to lose weight. There are few exceptions, though, when a person gains much weight because of hormon treatment prescripted by his or her doctor.

[freelance writer]

this is hella big :))) yeah so big!