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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're  exaggerating.  Wellness programs often need to take blood to establish baseline measurements like on cholesterol, a1c, blood glucose.  Wellness programs were shut down because of the POSSIBILITY that genetic information could be obtained. It was never the intent of wellness programs to collect genetic info.  Costs need to be controlled, especially for self insureds, and wellness programs were helping make workforces healthier, decreasing absenteeism, and decreasing overall health costs by 5-15% depending on the quality of the program and corporate participation.  It is an example of throwing the baby out with the bath water.[/quote]

Well this certainly seems like the post of a professional operative.  How exactly would a wellness program possibly obtain genetic information when running a cholesterol test?  I don't believe for a second that a wellness program was shut down because they were afraid that if they did a cholesterol test they would mistakenly obtain genetic information.

And cold I get a citation for the 5-15^ decrease in health costs as the result of work place wellness programs?[/quote]

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