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WASHINGTON – A Republican attempt to promote wellness programs among employers ran into a blast of one-size-must-fit-all rhetoric Friday and lost on a vote of 34-24 in the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s mark-up of H.R. 3200. Making the case for employer-based wellness programs, U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., pointed out that President Obama was a fan of providing incentives to improve health. He said the proposal allows employers to pay up to half of health benefit costs instead of the current limit of 20 percent. “Healthy people cost less,” Buyer said. That concept didn’t seem to …
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