[SoDak]

Your employer has no legal right to know what your blood pressure or cholesterol number is, or anything in your medical records. So when it becomes mandatory, the lawsuits will fly like snowflakes in winter.

What's to stop them from raising everyone's health insurance through the proverbial roof, then offering a very steep discount for an assesment? That wouldn't be "mandatory" but would almost guarantee adherence.

[microgood]

What's to stop them from raising everyone's health insurance through the proverbial roof, then offering a very steep discount for an assesment? That wouldn't be "mandatory" but would almost guarantee adherence.

Some may try it, but many companies actually use health insurance to attract employees, so I guess it depends on how available replacement workers are.

Personally, I would quit if a company demanded my medical records out of principal, and I am in good health with no known medical issues.

The other problem is that often information about other family members is in medical records for helping in determining diseases that are genetically related and then the company would be demanding the whole family history, which means family members that do not even work for the company could sue.

I think experiments are going on in various companies, but there are huge roadblocks to continuing down this road very far, it may just be more psychological warfare to eventually get nationalized health care.

[doc30]

What's to stop them from raising everyone's health insurance through the proverbial roof, then offering a very steep discount for an assesment? That wouldn't be "mandatory" but would almost guarantee adherence.

That is the smart way to do it, too. Already happening where I work. Last January, we had the option of taking for a discount on our insurance. Turns out the discount was greater than the increase in premiums so my family came out ahead.