A lifetime of poor diet and inactivity, and YOU are paying for it

[MattTheSkywalker]

Medicare has reclassified obesity as a disease. The short version:

Young, healthy productive people will pay for people who chose for decades to eat poorly and be inactive.

The philosophy: Medicare needs more money. This is one way to get it.

The long version:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...times/revisedpolicytreatsobesityundermedicare

 

[Lao Tzu]

Cancer is largely due to poor lifestyle choices. So is AIDS. So is hypertension. Many medical conditions are due to poor lifestyle choices and poor decision making.

 

[havoc]

Not really that noticeable in regards to a decrease on one's bank account, they would of found another way to come up with the cash, invented a new crisis or something, but still not too honorable.

 

[Lao Tzu]

Secondly, its not uncommon for people who get gastric bypass to have less obesity related health problems like arthritis, or diabetes, or other illnesses. This could save money as well as spend it.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Cancer is largely due to poor lifestyle choices. So is AIDS. So is hypertension. Many medical conditions are due to poor lifestyle choices and poor decision making.

Medicare should be disbanded - that's the real issue.

It takes something as viscerally ugly as obesity to cause people to realize how revolting the idea of paying for other people's health care.

When you see a 300 pound woman with fat hanging out, think of medicare. They are equally disgusting, except the fat person can't take your money.

Until now.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Not really that noticeable in regards to a decrease on one's bank account, they would of found another way to come up with the cash, invented a new crisis or something, but still not too honorable.

speak for yourself sir. medicare is currently 1.5% of your paycheck, and unlike social security, it has no cap.

Agree on the crisis invention technique, the philosophy is well known, the implementations of it continue to amaze me.

 

[Lao Tzu]

Medicare should be disbanded - that's the real issue.

It takes something as viscerally ugly as obesity to cause people to realize how revolting the idea of paying for other people's health care.

When you see a 300 pound woman with fat hanging out, think of medicare. They are equally disgusting, except the fat person can't take your money.

Until now.

Nah. Healthcare is one of those civic protections that most people who live in a developed country think everyone should have access to. No different than law enforcement, fire departments, higher education, roads, etc.

What i don't get is on EF people get mad about having to spend money on obesity, but they also get mad when new drugs come out that cause you to lose weight without effort. Catch-22.

 

[WODIN]

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[jestro]

It could save a whole city. Some lard ass will eat til they are "obese" then sit around in a mu mu and collect checks. BUT will end up getting stuck in a nuclear tank, preventing a catastophic explosion, and believe me, it will be funny!

 

[danielson]

im guessing the thinking behind it is to try and nip diabetes in the bud (i.e. stop mere obesity letting them get diabetes, which is probably covered and which complications cost far more)

so maybe thisis justifiable if they have the statistical and scientific data to show they could influenece the progression in a population to more complications



scandinavian europe doesnt have fat people...i never saw one. they have to walk and cycle more however....but with lower pollution levels, excellent public transport, gorgeous women and low crime i'd probably be following suit