In the hopes of reducing health care premiums, more employers are requiring blood tests to screen for disease. This can be good or bad, depending on what they are screening for. Non-evidence based tests like a TSH or urinalysis will be useless, and may actually drive up costs by leading to unnecessary testing.
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