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Its not just michelin. there are other companies having to respond to these rising health care costs and also it seems that a number of those voluntary wellness programs that are out there havent had the best results, so now micheli, another company demanding employees share things like your personal health information, your bmi, your weight, your blood sugar levels or obviously you have to face higher premium is or deductibles. apparently until recentry, this is interesting, michelin did award ...

Revenues yet where they will charge a higher price for a bigger company and this guy mentioned chips ahoy, i think. i can see youre that little company out there. you want to get those big, big clients, but i think its better to go and get the smaller clients first. they can be your case studies. >> and what was neat, they got kiva and vineyard farms but well-known names. lots of people out there know what kiva is. kiva is a cool, innovative company yet they dont have a the lot of money to get a...

And let them move towards health and this is to throw them in and-- >> if the company is going to institute an expensive wellness programs with trainers at gym. >> the bmi, et cetera, et cetera. >> and they get more heat treating the workers like rats or hamsters in a cage. you have to take a measurement one of the thing, weight across the board they can track like the biggest loser on tv how the overall weight of the work force is going up and down. theyre selling health care, its not hooters, ...

It. jenna: im sure our viewers have questions about that, because our doctors cant release this info. jenna: the hipaa privacy rules does not prevent a supervisor, hr worker or others for asking for information about an pros health -- employees health. be they need it to administer wellness programs or health insurance. so, fred, outrageous slippery slope, but is it perfectly legal for the employer to do this? >> well, thats the question. and now youre about to find out why my friends get mad at...

Issue that could choose to do this. what were talking about is socializing the losses from really bad behavior, from social activities. so not just smoking. i would say drinking, too. if you dont like it, if you work for that company, work elsewhere or dont smoke or drink. >> rick, i was surprised to hear you were against this because isnt this the same rationale that obamacare uses for the insurance mandate? if you cause the general public more money, you should pay a premium for it? >> youll b...

Orders, clarify whether doctors can ask patients about their guns in homes. we know under the obamacare act in 2010, explicitly the statute says that there cannot be questions about guns in homes, lawful possession of firearms in wellness programs, in programs dictating how people are feeling and questionnaires and the like. so the subtle or not so subtle indication in this executive order is yeah, doctors, you should really be look at the issue of lawful guns in peoples homes because it is a he...

Intercollegiate activities and it will support the entire student body. time is running out for the spellman county jaguars, sophomore amber banks knows this will be her last year as a division three athlete. >> and its tough to swallow. >> in fact, this is the last year for all ncaa conference sports at fellman, a historically black womens college in atlanta and shifting funds used for uniforms, referees and travel to wellness programs for all 2100 spellman students. >> since the announcement h...

We already underpay for medicare what they would normally get. as a result, doctors limit the amount of coverage, the number of medicare patients they have and hospitals are forced to find ways to make up the losses on medicare patients by charging more to the nonmedicare, nonmedicaid population. and this is going to hurt and they know it. the other part there is $156 billion cut out of what is called medicare these are insurance policies seniors can get. 24% of seniors took advantage of this gi...

good morning everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. im ashleigh banfield. im zoraida sambolin. were bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. lets get started. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin with breaking news this morning. two american tourists kidnapped by gunmen in egypt. it happened in the town of dahab in the region of egypt. the report says that two americans were forced out of a car and taken away. the alleged kidnappers de...

Spend on wellness programs like smoker bans, they can save $3.50 in health care costs or $16 in overall worker productivity if you account for sick time, death benefits and generally having more active employees. some studies show it can cost more than $1,000 extra dollars a year to hire a smoker than nonsmoker. is the city could lose good employees by excludeing smokers and they fear a slippery slope. concern there is if they can ban smokers from being hired, whats next? banning people with bad...