{"id":47124,"date":"2014-11-30T00:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_exclusive_u-s-_ceos_threaten_to_pull_tacit_obamacare_support_over_w\/"},"modified":"2014-11-30T00:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:58:13","slug":"reuters_exclusive_u-s-_ceos_threaten_to_pull_tacit_obamacare_support_over_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47124","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Exclusive: U.S. CEOs threaten to pull tacit Obamacare support over &#39;wellness&#39; spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading U.S. CEOs, angered by the Obama administration&#8217;s challenge to certain &#8220;workplace wellness&#8221; programs, are threatening to side with anti-Obamacare forces unless the government backs off, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Major U.S. corporations have broadly supported President Barack Obama&#8217;s healthcare reform despite concerns over several of its elements, largely because it included provisions encouraging the wellness programs.<\/p>\n<p>The programs aim to control healthcare costs by reducing smoking, obesity, hypertension and other risk factors that can lead to expensive illnesses. A bipartisan provision in the 2010 healthcare reform law allows employers to reward workers who participate and penalize those who don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/29\/us-usa-healthcare-wellness-exclusive-idUSKCN0JD0AC20141129\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading U.S. CEOs, angered by the Obama administration&#8217;s challenge to certain &#8220;workplace wellness&#8221; programs, are threatening to side with anti-Obamacare forces unless the government backs off, according to people familiar with the matter. Major U.S. corporations have broadly supported President<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47124\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,582,589,149,168,104,597,151,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}