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Letters

Ethical Guidelines For Employee Behavior Change

Steven Pearson and Sarah Lieber (May/Jun 09) have suggested a series of ethical rules for employers to follow when designing health plan benefits for their employees. We agree with them that the workplace is a good place to deliver health promotion and behavior change tools, and we have seen many examples of employers successfully introducing benefit designs that engage their beneficiaries and improve healthy behavior. We fear, however, that strict adherence to these proposed rules could prevent employers from designing incentives that might have the most beneficial impact on employee health and on the cost of care.

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Jeff Levin-Scherz and Harlan Levine
Towers Perrin, Boston, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, California

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