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.
