gym for Saluda’s municipal employees

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The following appeared in a memo to the Saluda town council from the town's business manager:

"Research indicates that those who exercise regularly are hospitalized less than half as often as those who don't exercise. By providing a well-equipped gym for Saluda's municipal employees, we should be able to reduce the cost of our group health insurance coverage by approximately 50 percent and thereby achieve a balanced town budget."
Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc.

Saluda's town business manager suggests an argument providing a well-equipped gym for Saluda's municipal employees will result into people exercising regularly, being hospitalized less, eventually leading to lower cost of the health insurance, and balanced town budget. Although the hypothetical theory might appear having a strong basis, there are many factors that have to be taken into consideration, before the actual theory would lead towards the suggested results.

Saluda town council providing a well-equipped gym for municipal employees does not guarantee people signing up for the gym and exercising on the regular basis. If people are interested in exercising, they probably are members of some specified gym already and not waiting for the town council to provide a gym for them to start exercising.

Considering the people, who would be interested in becoming gym members, if the gym is provided by town council, there should be some fitness and equipment related workshops held on the regular continuous basis for beginners to get comfortable with the idea and actually join the gym.

The information about the gym location is omitted from the memo. If the gym is built far away from the employment building, the municipal employees would be reluctant to sign up and exercise, because they would have to spend time traveling towards and back from the gym.

The cost for the well-equipped gym is not mentioned in the memo as well. The high costs would not attract municipal workers.

Lastly, but not the least important to mention, providing the gym for the municipal employees only verses providing the gym for the entire town, might affect the health of the municipal employees only and not the rest of the Saluda's town civilians. Therefore this proposal would not affect the health of the civilians and would not be suggest lower costs tremendously (approximately 50%) of the health insurance coverage to reach a balanced town budget.

More importantly the memo omits the numbers health insurance costs today and suggested numbers for the cost when the gym is provided. As well as the cost of building and maintaining the gym, which might of set the actual proposed benefit of minimizing the cost for the health insurance.

Consequently for the many reasons mentioned above the argument statement is weak and not persuasive. Memo omits significant information about the gym location and membership costs, as well as, the cost of building and maintaining the gym along with instructional workshops for beginners. Proposal concentrates only on the gym for the municipal workforce verses the entire town and it also does not take into consideration the municipal employees which are currently members of the fitness centers and used to going to their centers, who would be indifferent to the new offered well-equipped gym.
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