You will be healthy and you will like it!
One of the local troves for government geeks such as myself is the North Carolina Register, the publication where various administrative rules, executive orders, official notices and other bric-a-brac of bureaucratic life gets entombed.
In today's edition (Click here for the main page, and then click on Issue 06 of 2007) we find an initiative to make state workers healthier:
In partnership with the State Health Plan and the Office of State Personnel, each agency shall create and participate in a Worksite Wellness program. The Worksite Wellness initiatives shall address the primary components of a healthy lifestyle including healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco cessation and stress management.
As a representative of an industry that causes a great deal of stress for state workers, I'm considering filing an objection.
Seriously, I don't smoke, but if I give up cheeseburgers, stress and beer I'm pretty much going to have to find another line of work...maybe in a state office somewhere.
You can read the rule in all it's glory here
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So, this would be at the same time they are giving state employees ANOTHER rate hike and doing away with the indemnity plan? What, BCBS isn't making enough money, now they want the government to foot the bill for "wellness programs".
How about covering some damn preventive medicine then? And, how about paying a realistic rate, so that some health care providers might actually ACCEPT the state's lousy PPO program.
Wellness program....bah!
Posted on September 18, 2007 10:00 PM