It’s increasingly common for colleges and universities, like other businesses, to offer the employees they insure incentives for staying healthy. And that makes sense; experts agree it’s a lot cheaper to treat illnesses earlier rather than later, or to prevent them altogether. But instead of offering “carrots” to its employees for seeking preventive care, Pennsylvania State University starting this fall is opting for the “stick,” imposing a $100 monthly surcharge on those who don’t meet new health requirements.

via Penn State faculty object to details of a new preventive health care plan | Inside Higher Ed. via Stephen Downes

As noted by Stephen Downes in his link to this article, it would not be likely that a government could impose this level of invasiveness and discrimination, but private health insurance seems to be able to do so. Thank goodness that, at least currently, Canadia and Australia both have public health funding!