Today's Axiom: Healthy Habits = Healthy Premiums

The simple message is:

Healthy Habits = Healthy Individuals, and Healthy Individuals = Lower Premiums

We all know that health insurance premiums are out of step with wage increases:

And it has been proven through multiple studies, that employee behavior is the single largest determinant in health care decision-making:

But chew on this new study. It quantifies that employers who, "Aggressively support improvement in employee’s health and healthy behavior" have on average, 16% lower premiums than companies with, "Consistently less support for employee health and healthy behaviors."

3 Charts, 1 message. Engaging your employees when it comes to their health care does make a difference.

Spread the Health in 2009.

-JS