Excerpt: Worksite wellness programs are effective at reducing the demand for health care and this lowers cost. Wellness programs make sense, they have been shown to work, yet they are rarely included in any discussions about future health care costs. This oversight can usually be explained by one reason -- a lack of appreciation for the strength of the business case for wellness. The fact is, the return on a wellness program investment is nearly always positive. And even when an investment of $1 yields a meager return of just $1, that means that the benefit is essentially free! Who wouldn't provide such a benefit?

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