"The latest evidence in support of wellness is a survey of 600 U.S. employers in 2011 ... It showed that a group of 'high performing firms,' those which embrace health care cost control strategies, including wellness, reduced their rate of growth of health care costs over several years to about 1 percent annually in 2010 compared with an average of 10 percent rates of cost growth among 'low performing' employers, or those which did not adopt such strategies."  MORE >>