Monday, June 14, 2021

Monetary Motivation

There are incentives both big and small to entice people to get a Covid vaccination. A month ago Hubby Tony and I took advantage of an edible one. Yesterday I got an email from our health insurance company with another one.

The company offers a nice wellness incentive program. If you complete an online health assessment, they add some money to a debit card that you can use to pay for qualified medical expenses (like doctor visit co-pays, lab fees, and prescriptions).  Complete some 'online health coach' goals and they'll throw some more money on the card.  All in all you can earn as much as $170 a year. 

But now, giving them proof of my Covid vaccine will add another $50 to my card. All I had to do was complete an online form telling them which vaccine I received and when, then upload photos of the front and back of my card. The easy project took less than five minutes.

Five years ago: Bang!

14 comments:

  1. United Healthcare wants to come to my house and do a check up on me. No thanks, that's what my doctor is for. And besides that, I don't trust their motives.

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  2. Now that's incentive. The insurance company my brother had for awhile through his wife, before she lost her job when the pandemic started, gave them incentives like that. If they wore fitbits and got in so many steps a day on average they got a discount, for one.

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    1. Youngest Son had even more incentives than we do, including the Fitbit one.

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  3. Now money, that's a nice incentive. My son's company let him pick from a few items, he ended up with a water bottle with the company logo on it.

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    1. I dunno...if he uses the water bottle in the office and his boss sees it maybe he'll get some brownie points.

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  4. Excellent. One way or another, we'll get a herd innoculated.

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  5. Lucky you. All I got was a sore arm for two days. Incentives work.

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    1. I find it interesting that I got the incentive offering long after I got the shot(s).

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  6. Interesting. Some companies here also offer incentives.

    God bless.

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  7. Wow! That's a great idea and a great incentive. Yay!

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