How To Change From A Sickness Environment To A Fitness Culture

This Fitness Culture section is focused not just on helping you design and implement an improved and less expensive healthcare program. We’ll show you how to change your lifestyle and workplace from a negative environment that promotes sickness, fatness and low esteem to one of wellness and achievement. Here's how you avoid the healthcare storm for a better way ahead.

We’ll show you how your effort to find a sensible, affordable healthcare plan blossoms into an optimistic vision that leads to real improvement. We’ll show you how you can develop a plan that actually improves your health as well as the health of your family while increasing your energy, productivity and quality of life.

If you are an employer, it's a plan with which you can transform employee benefits from a cost to an investment that generates a return. A plan with which your family, or any family, can improve its lifestyle and longevity.

We’re not talking about a magical, quick fix for out-of-control medical costs. No one has that. But, we do offer a long-term solution that can give you major cost reductions. It will contain and control cost increases that have spiraled unpredictably. It will make right a system that has been upside down.

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Establishing The Fitness Culture:

Traditional insurance models have been the centerpiece, often the only piece, of healthcare plans, especially employee health benefit plans. Since traditional insurance plans only respond to illness, they have rewarded and promoted sickness and absenteeism. Employees, especially, have had minimal investment in and control of their own healthcare, so they have not been accountable. The result has been that we developed a culture of sickness.

The sickness culture embraces, if not encourages, unhealthy behavior – smoking, dietary abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, physical inactivity, lack of accountability and ineffective consumerism in healthcare. Such sickness conduct promotes serious medical problems – cancer, respiratory illness, cardiovascular illness, obesity, high blood pressure, stroke, high cholesterol and diabetes.

These illnesses that result from our unhealthy conduct and bad habits are primary forces driving consumer healthcare costs to record high levels. These preventable conditions are the causes of up to 75% of our medical expenses. To solve our healthcare cost crisis, we must break out of the gloom of sickness conduct and seek the light of healthy behavior in our personal lives and our work.

Fitness Culture Objectives:

The health and wellness environment has the following objectives:

• Reduce and control healthcare costs;

• Increase and enable consumer responsibilities and involvement in family medical affairs;

• Provide consumers with the information, advice, assistance and advocacy services that give them a way to succeed in better managing their healthcare affairs at lower cost and in less time;

• Promote prevention, fitness, longevity, consumer control and personal accountability as a basis for a wellness mindset; and,

• For employers, provide low-cost outsource services as alternatives to employer involvement in employee medical issues; and,

• For employers, nurture a positive, workplace healthy mindset that can improve employee enjoyment, attendance and productivity.

For employers, establishing a workplace wellness environment requires attention to detail on the part of management. In human resources administration, federal law forbids employer discrimination on the usual grounds of sex, marital status, pregnancy, age, race, national origin, and immigration status. Federal regulations also favor the sickness culture. They restrict employers in hiring applicants based on being healthier. For information and assistance on any or all of your HR issues or on avoiding trouble with EEOC rules, go to Pinnacle HR.

Federal ADA rules forbid discrimination on any basis of disability or impairment if a disability does not prevent an employee from doing the job. In effect, federal regulations say that an employer can not refuse to hire an applicant on the premise that the applicant’s impairment issues would increase employer insurance costs. If employer benefits are structured properly, this issue becomes mute.

Leadership:

By far, the most important contribution employer executives can provide in building a healthy environment is leadership. Leadership in spirit, in commitment and by example. To get more information on the leadership needed, go to Leadership: The Key To Success.

What You Can Do To Develop The Fitness Culture Mindset:

For a step by step guide on how to establish a wellness culture in your home or your workplace, go to Fitness Culture Development.

Request For Proposal For Best Health Benefits Plan:

To learn information on preventive solutions for your medical care, go to Medical Self Care Prevention.

To see information on medical affairs management solutions, go to Medical Self Care Management.

If you have questions or need additional information, go to our Contact Us Page.

To learn about preventive health and wellness solutions that can enhance longevity for your program, go to Preventive Health and Fitness.

To learn about healthcare system management solutions that will help you mind your healthcare business, go to Patient Care Plan.

WARNING: NEVER CANCEL YOUR CURRENT INSURANCE UNTIL REPLACEMENT COVERAGE IS APPROVED AND IN PLACE.

If you are ready to start designing your best Health Benefits and Fitness Culture Plan, as appropriate, click on the Health Plan Quote Guide page for Individuals, or for Families, or for Groups.

Then, for your personal Fitness Culture services proposal, go to the Personal Health and Fitness Plan Request Page.

It is our objective to offer you reliable information, advice and assistance to help you better manage your personal and family fitness and healthcare affairs at lower cost and in less time. Toward that goal, we think the following websites offer quality content on topics that could appeal to or be beneficial to you.

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Fitness Culture?

Pursuing the Fitness Culture requires people to get out of their comfort zone. Have you done it? Have you changed your lifestyle to one of fitness and preventive health? Have you taken steps to better manage your healthcare? Will you help others by sharing how you have succeeded?