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Can a person get a discount n health isurance for being and staying healthy?

NOMINATED TOPIC | October 26, 2009
Briefly describe a specific question, or set of related questions, about a health care test or treatment that this program should consider.

Can a person get a discount n health isurance for being and staying healthy?

Does your question include a comparison of different health care approaches? (If no, your topic will still be considered.)

no answer

If yes, explain the specific technologies, devices, drugs, or interventions you would like to see compared:
What patients or group(s) of patients does your question apply to? (Please include specific details such as age range, gender, coexisting diagnoses, and indications for therapy.)

Those who maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Are there subgroups of patients that your question might apply to? (For example, an ethnic group, stage or severity of a disease.)
Describe the health-related benefits you are interested in. (For example, improvements in patient symptoms or problems from treatment or diagnosis.)

If a patient quit smoking, can their prmiums descrease over time? If a patient loses weights, etc.

Describe any health-related risks, side effects, or harms that you are concerned about.

Becoming helthier no side effects.

Appropriateness for EHC Program

Does your question include a health care drug, intervention, device, or technology available (or likely to be available) in the U.S.?

unsure

Which priority area(s) and population(s) does this topic apply to? (check all that apply)
EHC Priority Conditions (updated in 2008)
None
AHRQ Priority Populations
None
Federal Health Care Program
None

Importance

Describe why this topic is important.

It would b an incentive for people to strive for a healthy lifestyle.

What specifically motivated you to ask this question? (For example, you are developing a clinical guideline, working with a policy with large uncertainty about the appropriate approach, costly intervention, new research you have read, items in the media you may have seen, a clinical practice dilemma you know of, etc.)

I stay healhy an yet pay the same rates as those who choose an alternativ lifetsyle.

Does your question represent uncertainty for clinicians and/or policy-makers? (For example, variations in clinical care, controversy in what constitutes appropriate clinical care, or a policy decision.)

no answer

If yes, please explain:

Potential Impact

How will an answer to your research question be used or help inform decisions for you or your group?
Describe the timeframe in which an answer to your question is needed.

1 year

Describe any health disparities, inequities, or impact on vulnerable populations your question applies to.

Nominator Information

Other Information About You: (optional)
Please choose a description that best describes your role or perspective: (you may select more than one category if appropriate)
Are you making a suggestion as an individual or on behalf of an organization?

no answer

Please tell us how you heard about the Effective Health Care Program
None
Page last reviewed November 2017
Page originally created October 2009

Internet Citation: Can a person get a discount n health isurance for being and staying healthy?. Content last reviewed November 2017. Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/get-involved/nominated-topics/can-a-person-get-a-discount-n-health-isurance-for-being-and-staying-healthy

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