{"id":31418,"date":"2009-10-23T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"bd4fd3c5-ef37-4de5-ab37-33391d80803c"},"modified":"2009-10-23T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T14:20:08","slug":"wellness-and-prevention-mostly-absent-in-health-reform-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/31418","title":{"rendered":"Wellness And Prevention Mostly Absent In Health Reform Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Despite Americans&#8217; poor lifestyle choices and the chronic problems they spawn, the health-care reform proposals being considered in Congress contain relatively little to promote wellness,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20091023\/NEWS07\/910230372\/-1\/NEWS01\/Health-care+reform+plans+neglect+wellness+prevention\" >The Tennessean<\/a> reports. While &#8220;more than one-fourth of all adults in the U.S. are obese,&#8221;\u00a0the &#8220;word &#8216;obesity&#8217; does not appear in the 1,000-plus page bill approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. A Senate health reform bill contains only two obesity provisions.&#8221;\u00a0Among the\u00a0wellness provisions in the Senate and House bills is one that &#8220;would allow companies to rebate up to 50 percent of an insurance premium for people who complete a wellness program.&#8221;\u00a0(Theobald, 10\/23).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/iYClo0sWcm0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Despite Americans&#8217; poor lifestyle choices and the chronic problems they spawn, the health-care reform proposals being considered in Congress contain relatively little to promote wellness,&#8221; The Tennessean reports. While &#8220;more than one-fourth of all adults in the U.S. are obese,&#8221;\u00a0the &#8220;word &#8216;obesity&#8217; does not appear in the 1,000-plus page bill approved by the House Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}