interesting glimpse of how health system works (at least in one instance)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/business/02depress.html

[Guest guest]

Yah- it goes like this:

The insurance co. sends out a questionaire to the companies who's

workers it insures and then goes over the results looking for the

biggest aliments that keep people from work and which ones costs them

money.

If it looks profitable enough, free preventative care procedures

(like PAP smears, yearly eye tests, etc) are offered the employee -

with the benefit paid to the insurer becuase the employee is

healthier and misses less work.

In your article , Atena has discovered that 33 million people

suffer from depression - and probably some portion work for companies

they insure........... so to save themselves money, and the employer,

they're going to allow the employee to get a break on getting

depression dx'd and treated....

Happy, non complaining employees, miss less work, and are less

exspensive than complaining sick employees who miss alot of work.

This is the way our system has worked for quite some time.

Barb

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