It looks as though only those having access to resources are the ones who can survive this epidemic and those who are less resourceful are left to the mercy of God. Do you want to be a survivor? If you have enough money with you, you might think you can manage your resources but out here such a straight relation between money and resources does not exist. You might have money, but since the supply is restricted, you might have difficulty in acquiring it even if you are ready to pay a high price. If money can’t buy the vaccine, then what are you supposed to do?

Try at Online Marketplaces

You can try buying the vaccine at Craig list or eBay. There is a good chance of their denying availability. But you can still try. Also many times these malls don’t keep those medicines on their list that need to be prescribed by licensed medical practitioners or those that need to be administered by them.

Check with a Direct Medical Medicine Facility

Concierge doctors charge you around $1000 for providing 24 hour medical service. They promise to provide you with more than what a normal medical unit might. Out here too money does not help much. Your concierge doctor will not give you supplies because you have a $ 1000 to pay for the vaccine. Even the rich have to wait for their supplies. The vaccine supplies are prioritized according to the degree of susceptibility to the disease.

Engage a Personal Assistant

Searching for doctors, clinics and medical centers that have vaccine supplies is a cumbersome task. If you don’t have time for that, you can always engage someone to search out the doctors, clinics or shops that have supplies. You can refer to TaskUs.com which work like a personal assistant in tracking down the doctors, clinics, drugstores, or malls from where you can buy your supply.

You might also contemplate securing supplies from other countries by traveling there but these will not help. The vaccines might have some serious side effects which might be harmful to you in the long run. Even if you travel abroad for treatment you might be denied treatment as you might be asked to produce a government approved permanent residence proof.

About 34 % employers are planning to offer wellness incentives to their employees apart from providing healthcare facilities at low costs. In order to save up on insurance, the employers might find offering these health care perks, a bait. But they are only for the short term. In the long run, the employer will be sucked out of his monetary resources because in order to promote health for each and every employee the costs would be more than what he’d have to spend on health care insurance. Moreover, can you guarantee disease-free health to people even if they follow the strict health care regime? I know of a gentleman who used to jog 7 miles a day and eat a healthy vegan diet but still succumbed to a massive heart attack when he was 70 years old.

Some employers are desperately trying to promote health care with financial incentives, but this seems to be still rare. If employees are interested in knowing if their companies are offering them these services they should check with their human resources departments.

As a first step towards the wellness program employees are made to undergo a medical examination which comes up with their health status based on which they are guided in the course of action that they need to take to improve their health.

Some companies are offering retail gift coupons as well as low and convenient health care premiums to motivate their workers into undertaking wellness programs. For example, if you are an employee of Prudential you get $150 for taking a health risk assessment and get a $20 discount for joining a gym.

Motivational measures are good. But there are some companies that are compelling their employees to take up wellness programs. For example, the state of North Carolina is mandating people to follow some health care procedures laid out by them. Non compliant people will be put on the more expensive insurance plans. Penalty for obesity and for smoking will be imposed from 2010. Smokers, who don’t comply with the health care plan devised for them, will have to pay up $40 more per month than they’d normally do under the healthcare plan. Similarly the obese are given a definite time in which they have to show signs of improving upon their BMI readings failing which they’ll have to pay a penalty.

Most of us might be against the penalty on humanitarian grounds. Especially for obesity I don’t think this is quite justified because there might be reasons which may be beyond one, like genetic inheritance. Also making the health care bill mandatory is a punishment to the common man.