Revival Strategy 9 BRIEF: Paying Workers Displaced by AI with a Self-Health Income Program

Proposing a bold new incentive program to transform
U.S. health and the economy by 2035

As AI causes the loss of jobs, many are proposing Universal Basic Income (UBI) programs to pay people for having a heartbeat. What if instead we paid people for maintaining excellent heart health? The Self-Health Income program pays people for maintaining a life.

This bold strategy offers displaced or underemployed workers a new kind of opportunity: earn money, gain health, and re-enter the workforce through challenging new wellness pathways.

Key Tactics:

• Outcomes-Based Payments: Reward individuals for measurable improvements in weight, blood pressure, A1C, etc.
• Sustained Incentives: Bonus income for progress maintained over 6–12 months.
• Health Equity Pilots: Launch test programs via Medicaid, VA, and employer groups.
• New Career Tracks: Prioritize job training for those who succeed—in roles like coaching, caregiving, and digital health.
• Integrated Verification Tech: Secure, HIPAA-compliant tracking platforms linked to wearables and labs.

Replicate and Scale Using Success Models

• Blue Zones Projects
• Virta Health
• Sharecare’s SmartDollar Program
• Workplace Wellness Programs at GE, Johnson & Johnson, and Safeway

What Success Looks Like

• Job losses from AI are mitigated by creating meaningful human-centered roles in a new healing economy.
• Individuals are empowered to health—especially those in economically struggling communities—to earn while building a better future.
• Scores of Americans‘ health is improved through self-health training and behavior changes.
• Turns health achievers into mentors, workers, and leaders in the next wave of care delivery.
• Chronic disease rates are measurably reduced across demographic groups.
• Tens-of-thousands of new jobs are created in coaching, digital health, and community support.
• Healthcare costs are reduced by reducing preventable diseases—healthier people equals fewer ER visits, hospital stays, and prescription drugs.

This is more than wishful thinking—it’s a transformative idea whose time has come. Imagine a healing, thriving economy—powered by people, not pills. This is an integral element of the program to make the U.S. the 4th healthiest nation in the world by 2035.

Are you in?

Truth, Clarity, & the Fine Print

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