John DiNardo

We gratefully acknowledge the use of the services and facilities of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan (funded by NICHD Center Grant R24 HD041028). During work on this project, Bryan Stuart was supported by the NICHD (T32 HD0007339) as a UM Population Studies Center Traineeas well as by a generous gift from Peter Borish to the University of Michigan Department of Economics.

We thank Health Affairs for the opportunity to respond to Professor Ron Goetzel’s comments on our recent Health Affairs article, “Wellness Incentives in the Workplace:  Cost Savings through Cost Shifting to Unhealthy Workers.”  In many respects our article was quite limited in scope. We started by noting that companies are increasingly adopting wellness programs based on the idea that, with the help of financial incentives, employees will improve their health and employers will save money.