GOVERNMENT

Healthy workers and citizens and collection of tax dollars

The government is incented to provide a tax break to offer Preventative Care Management Plans. “A long-term comprehensive approach (to mental health) is likely correlated to organizations gaining the full potential benefits from improved employee health. If individuals, businesses, and countries widen their understanding of health, they may reap the benefits of gains in life expectancy and quality of life.” 3 “Potential measurable effects of enhanced mental health support include fewer missed workdays and increased return to work rates. Among employees surveyed, those with anxiety or depression report missing on average, roughly six times more workdays per year than individuals without a mental health condition”. 5 Wellness and Supplemental employee benefits should aid the government in achieving more productive employees and citizens and more stable and possibly a hire tax base from both employees and their employer on a state and federal level.