Charges of the watchful eye of Big Brother have not surprisingly greeted a Cleveland Clinic plan in which the hospital will raise insurance premiums by 21 percent on employees who don’t participate in a wellness program.
Critics will no doubt argue that the wellness program requirement, like the Clinic’s ban on hiring smokers, is another example of the U.S. sliding toward a nanny state in which people are essentially forced to change their behaviors to suit someone else’s priorities.
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