Hey, it's Manouche. You're listening to New Text City, and this is Matthew Wesner.

I was at home. I checked my email, and I received an email which broadly described the program,

and I was absolutely shocked.

Matthew is an American politics professor at Penn State, and he was shocked because this

year, the university asked him and his colleagues to fill out an online form as part of a new

health and wellness plan. Okay, fine. But the questions were kind of prying.

Questions about whether or not the respondent was struggling with depression, whether they

were experiencing marital problems either through separation or divorce, whether there

was violence in the home.

They also asked the women responding if they planned on getting pregnant in the next year.

None of your business. But if they didn't answer these nosy questions, Penn State employees

would be docked a hundred bucks a month.

We would deliberately fill it with ludicrous information, not only to avoid the penalty,

but also to essentially to corrupt the database.

That was Matt's way of retaliating. It's not unusual for companies to try to cut down on

doctors bills by getting their workers to be more health conscious.

And when Obamacare kicks in in January, companies can offer bigger financial rewards to employees

who do things like get their way size measured or take other biometric tests all well and good,

unless employees like the ones at Penn State freak out at the invasion of their privacy.

One Ruiz is Matthew Wessner's colleague.

I teach ethics. And I saw this as highly and extremely unethical behavior on the part

of the administration to require the faculty and staff to submit just to bear their souls,

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