What does Prescription for Pennsylvania do to promote wellness?
All Pennsylvanians need to take responsibility for lifestyle issues that impact their health, quality of life and cost of health care. Certain health-damaging behaviors, such as smoking, cause health consequences and the need for treatment that can drive up the cost of health care for everyone. Tobacco causes heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic lung disease, contributes to death from pneumonia and influenza and increases risks associated with diabetes. In order to address these types of concerns, the Pennsylvania Employee Benefit Trust Fund already has implemented a program called Get Healthy wherein participants can lower their insurance contribution rate by participating in wellness activities on a regular basis. The Administration’s proposal is to offer similar assistance to overcome those behaviors while at the same time encouraging businesses and insurers to provide incentives for healthy behaviors and active remediation of unhealthy behaviors. Furthermore, Prescription for Pen
