I'm glad it died. This is the kind of idiotic bill we don't need. If it makes sense for insurance companies to offer discounts to their clients, then the insurance companies will offer those discounts. They know better than anybody how well the encouragement of healthy behavior effects their bottom line. It's incredible how it is assumed that the government knows better than the insurance companies and they can just come in and "improve" the insurance company's offering. Result: increased rates on all insured to cover mandated government discounts that, if they made financial sense in the first place, would have already been implemented by the insurance companies. Yay, more laws with nice titles that give us all a warm fuzzy and grow the big government bureaucracy!
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