Punitive wellness programs
15 Sep 2013 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Penn State faculty are organizing a campaign against the university's new punitive wellness program, which reduces employees' compensation by $1200 per year unless they undergo medical testing and provide personal information to online data collector WebMD (including such information as whether they are having marriage problems or are planning to become pregnant).
http://pa-aaup.com/2013/07/30/the-penn-state-healthcare-mandate-and-a-call-for-civil-disobedience/
There is a change.org petition.
http://www.change.org/petitions/penn-state-president-rodney-a-erickson-benefits-office-and-trustees-stop-the-new-penn-state-wellness-program-and-its-surcharges
Here is another article about it.
http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2013/08/12/penn-state-to-faculty-were-doing-this-for-your-own-bad/
http://pa-aaup.com/2013/07/30/the-penn-state-healthcare-mandate-and-a-call-for-civil-disobedience/
There is a change.org petition.
http://www.change.org/petitions/penn-state-president-rodney-a-erickson-benefits-office-and-trustees-stop-the-new-penn-state-wellness-program-and-its-surcharges
Here is another article about it.
http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2013/08/12/penn-state-to-faculty-were-doing-this-for-your-own-bad/
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Date: 16 Sep 2013 05:56 am (UTC)You might want to look at <a href="http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2013/09/10/obesity-and-the-ama-part-two/>this</a>, and maybe point them at it, since it has some serious pointers on the legal ways to get around this crap.
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Date: 17 Sep 2013 12:17 am (UTC)Some of my friends are dealing with similar forms of discrimination and privacy violation at their workplaces. Legal precedent must be made to stop this kind of abuse.
-graymalkin
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Date: 18 Sep 2013 02:28 am (UTC)Evil and stupid, because they're giving the notion that it's a good idea to take care of yourself a bad name.
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