How does one address this sort of mentality? Michael Samuelson's quote is
quite Orwellian. Who confers this "gift of individual freedom and personal
empowerment"?  The framers held "these truths to be self-evident," not
"gently and clearly pass"ed.

Jutka Mándoki
Project Coordinator
Association for Community Health Improvement
180 Montgomery Street, Suite 1520
San Francisco, CA 94104

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Subject: How quickly can workplace wellness initiative drive down employer
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Workplace health management needs a boost from effective wellness prevention
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This Week's Guest Bloggers


David Pickering
President
preventure


 
Mr. Pickering founded Preventure/ International Fitness Club Network (IFCN),
a Rhode Island-based corporation, in 1991.  Preventure has grown to be one
of the world's leading providers of innovative award- winning health
management solutions to more than 33 million employees and insureds
throughout the U.S. and worldwide. 
"While there is no 'silver bullet' to curing the nation's health care
challenges, an increasing number of researchers and physicians are pointing
sharply to exercise as one of the leading controllable health care choices
an individual can make."



Michael Samuelson
Vice President
Health and Wellness Services
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
 
Mr. Samuelson is past president and Chief Executive Officer of the National
Center for Health Promotion (NCHP), and has been instrumental in marketing
health and wellness programs to thousands of corporations, medical centers,
and individuals both in the U.S. and abroad.
"Certainly there are community and employer responsibilities, but we need to
find opportunities to gently but clearly pass the bulk of the responsibility
to the individual. Not only is this a gift of individual freedom and
personal empowerment, is it also an economic necessity."


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