Want To Lose Weight? Talk To Obama
The White House’s healthcare proposals sent to Capitol Hill include ideas about giving employers tax credits for encouraging a healthy lifestyle, but there are some legal, not to mention political, stumbling blocks before these proposals can become law.
Employers would get tax credits for offering periodic health screenings, health counseling, obesity treatments, and smoking cessation programs, reports HRMorning. Employers could then use the money saved from the tax credits to offer financial incentives to employees to get healthy, which would lower their healthcare costs.
However,
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