If your employer operates like mine you’ve experienced steadily increasing health care  prices year over year.  I recently attended a session with the VP of Human Resources and had to ask the question, “Why do you say we’re getting better coverage, but we’re having to pay more for health coverage every year?”

He smiled, cracked his knuckles and said, “I love this question and practice it daily”.  He gave a simple reply, “Because our health is getting worse and worse.”  In other words, the employee base overall is getting fatter,  slower, eating more junk, more people are overweight for their age, and more people smoke. The company pays out ~66% more than you do when you visit the doctor.  So when your co-workers need “big people” medicine and have “big people” procedures done, you pay for it.

I gave more thought and realized that the VP was right.  I’ve watched co-workers eat Chic-Fil-A daily,  dine out at lunch on PF Chang’s and Olive Garden weekly, and look at me in disgust when I ask for fruit and deli sandwiches during team outings and events.  The gym at work is virtually empty every day although we have excess of 4000 people working our building.

Something is wrong here.  Who should fit the bill?

 Loading ...