The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 01:52:43 am
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This Health Insurance Giant Wants to Pay for Your Apple Watch
By Patrick Lucas Austin
January 29, 2019
In a partnership with Apple, health insurance company Aetna announced Tuesday a new app and wellness program that will track and offer personalized health recommendations to its customers, and grant them the option to redeem points for gift cards or toward payments for an Apple Watch by meeting activity goals and other health-related challenges. In short, you can expect a free Apple Watch as long as you’re taking care of yourself.
To participate in Aetna’s program, which kicks off later this spring, users will need either an iPhone 5S or newer, or an Apple Watch Series 1 or newer. The announced Attain app — which resembles Apple’s in-house apps — will provide personalized activity goals based on your age, sex, and weight, and challenge you to engage in activities like getting more sleep. It turns your activity and challenges into points, which can be redeemed for items like gift cards should you not want to put them toward the payment of your Apple Watch.
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http://time.com/5515510/apple-aetna-watch-insurance/ (http://time.com/5515510/apple-aetna-watch-insurance/)
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Just as the automobile insurance companies pushed that doogle in your car so they could monitor your driving habits, who didn't see this coming?
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CVS owns Aetna and CVS is all about control, controlling all aspects of your health whether you like it or not! And I am sure they would find a way to pass the cost down to their sheeple.
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I don't own Apple anything.