Comments on: Incidence of Healthcare Costs of Obesity http://healthcare-economist.com/2008/04/03/incidence-of-healthcare-costs-of-obesity/ An unbiased look at today's health care issues Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: AnnR http://healthcare-economist.com/2008/04/03/incidence-of-healthcare-costs-of-obesity/#comment-142483 AnnR Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:14:38 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/?p=882#comment-142483 Did the obese workers log the same number of hours as the non-obese? I could see that if someone was off of work at lot with an illness that their raise might reflect lowered achievement. I know that my own employer reviews claims data. I heard, informally one time that they'd changed a certain benefit because of someone's child. Is it considered discriminatory to hook that up with performance review data? It seems to me that spreads a lot of personal information across a company and might be seen as a questionable personnel practice. Did the obese workers log the same number of hours as the non-obese?
I could see that if someone was off of work at lot with an illness that their raise might reflect lowered achievement.

I know that my own employer reviews claims data. I heard, informally one time that they’d changed a certain benefit because of someone’s child.

Is it considered discriminatory to hook that up with performance review data? It seems to me that spreads a lot of personal information across a company and might be seen as a questionable personnel practice.

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