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- Title
It Saves To Be Healthy: Using the Tax Code To Incentivize Employer-Provided Wellness Benefits.
- Authors
SHEPHERD, HILARY R.
- Abstract
The article discusses the author's proposal to use the U.S. Tax Code to incentivize employer-provided wellness benefits for employees, and it mentions the popularity of health and wellness programs in America, as well as information about the obesity rates for adults, children, and adolescents in the country. Labor productivity costs are examined in relation to absenteeism, disability, and premature mortality. Employer-sponsored health insurance taxation is assessed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TAXATION of employer-sponsored health insurance; TAX incentives; HEALTH promotion; INTERNAL revenue law; HEALTH of adults; OBESITY statistics; JOB absenteeism; LABOR productivity; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Indiana Law Journal, 2016, Vol 91, Issue 2, p597
- ISSN
0019-6665
- Publication type
Article