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Nicholas D. Kristof's column about Gov. Mike Huckabee's wellness program for Arkansas ("Mike Huckabee Lost 110 Pounds.

It stopped health-care costs from escalating by starting a wellness program for county employees, and the three-year budget cycle went into effect.

To that end, the administration is overseeing a pilot program with the city's public hospital system in which people with chronic but manageable illnesses enter a "wellness" program for treatment of their illnesses.

But Bev Dochstader, a 48-year-old cancer survivor from Wellsboro, Pa., said she suffered so many complications from her breast surgery and reconstruction that she would not have been able to participate in any wellness program for many months.

Several states, including Maryland, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, have recently required insurance companies to offer wellness benefits to employees of small businesses, and a foundation-financed business group in Colorado, with encouragement from Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien, is also planning a wellness program for small- and medium-size employers.

Some insurance plans include a wellness program for free or at a minimal cost, around $150 to $200 per employee per year.

Here are some wellness programs for small businesses.

The money that would have been spent on collegiate sports will now fund wellness programming for the whole campus.

"When you tried to talk to someone to connect the dots, they looked at you like you had three heads," said Bob Perry, founder of Rolling Strong, which offers health and wellness programs for truckers.

Pat Manocchia, a classics major and professional hockey player-turned-fitness-guru, said that about five years ago, Gary Barnett, the president of Extell, gave him considerable latitude to design wellness programs for a handful of buildings.

The Nebraska provision has gotten far more publicity, for instance, than a provision that would provide tax credits of up to 50 percent to small-business owners who offer health benefits to their employees, or another that would authorize $200 million in grants to small businesses to help them start comprehensive wellness programs for their employees.