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HEALTH INSURANCE weight, stop smoking or control high blood pressure or cholesterol will be moved into plans with higher deductibles and higher costs. The key to evaluating health will be a blood draw that can be tested for factors ranging from cholesterol and nicotine to propensity for diabetes. Georgia recounts his own "Some of the best things that could come out of health care reform is people becoming more engaged, asking providers what are you doing, how much will it cost. It experience 15 years ago when he was feeling fine, played sports, got a blood test and found his cholesterol was 350. "That could have cost my health plan half a million dollars." He started eating better, taking Lipitor and has been at 180 ever since, avoiding costs to his health plan. Aon doesn't see any alternative to will make us become better customers." – CHRIS HANSON, owner of Hanson Benefits in Appleton wellness programs despite the pushback from union bargaining groups. "The costs are too high not to do something concrete," Georgia adds. Jerry Morris, Aon senior health and benefits consultant, agrees. "There's too Benefits agency in Appleton deals in small group insurance for several hundred small businesses, sees some hope in innovative policies like the wellness program offered by Network Health Plan. It rewards employers for much money involved and there's only so much you can do (to slow costs) with plan design. You have to be on the cutting edge looking at wellness." Chris Hanson, whose Hanson staff who improve their health. Hanson says one of her clients, a company in Greenville with 56 staff, received a rebate for $17,000. "Some of the best things that could make us become better customers." Apart from the Network reward " Hanson says. "It will come out of health care reform is people becoming more engaged, asking providers what are you doing, how much will it cost, 130 Second St., Neenah (920) 969-7900 Make sure your insurance plan includes Children's Hospital of Wisconsin • Pediatric specialists and subspecialists from allergy to urology. • Fox Valley's top-level intensive care nursery. • The only hospital in the region that treats children exclusively and has pediatricians on site 24/7. • Inpatient care, specialty care and neonatal intensive care in the Fox Valley. It's easy to see why Children's Hospital of Wisconsin means the best care for kids. And just in case your child ever needs more, we're your connection to Children's in Milwaukee, rated one of the best in the nation. chw.org/foxvalley 120691 34 | INSIGHT • October 2012 www. insightonbusiness.com