Posted on 05/09/2012 2:21:57 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
You win. Can’t top that. :)
I DO NOT want the government getting involved in my life in order to 'help' me. We all know what happens when government tries to 'help'.
Everyone should be the same height...
Thank you FRiend.
Yes, it would be, so it can't possibly be done! ;o)
We already get breaks on homeowner's insurance if we have smoke detectors, and sometimes get breaks on automobile insurance if we drive carefully, and don't get tickets. It would make PERFECT sense to reward, monetarily, those who work to stay healthy. It might even encourage those of us who aren't as healthy as we could be to work at it, if we knew we'd be able to save money.
That’s total BS! I gained weight before my back surgery 11 years ago and even more in the first 6 years after the surgery. I have now lost all the weight I gained post surgery and am still slowly losing weight. All I had to do was get more discipline about what I eat and get back into the habit of regular aerobic exercise, substituting swimming and cycling for jogging.
Dang it, the smokers have paid for their health insurance many times over! Remember the massive tobacco settlement with the states over health claims? The states took that money and used it to balence budgets, build roads and bridges, etc., but interestingly enough, did not put any of it back to pay for the smoker’s “health problems”. Then the feds put on more taxes on tobacco to pay for poor children’s insurance.
Smokers may not live as long as non-smokers, so they will not burden the Medicare system. Smokers also may not be around to help bankrupt the Social Security system. They deserve your thanks.
Remember how we were told that if people stopped smoking, insurance rates would stablize or start going down? They won’t, and obesity is just the latest boogeyman.
We need to phase out Medicaid and Medicare and let the free market do it’s magic.
I tell you folks, why oh why did Alito have to mention Broccoli when the supreme court was debating health care? I have no doubt this Doctor was sitting there listen to the news and thought “Broccoli, hmm; if the government can make you buy broccoli...” And the rest is history.
” They won’t, and obesity is just the latest boogeyman. “
‘boogeyman’ is a good word for it - and it’s amazing how many of us knee-jerk to it...
The fact is that, unless one happens to die suddenly, probably violently, *everybody*, regardless of lifestyle, will eventually get ill requiring expensive procedures and/or hospitalization - maybe several times - before dying.... (Or did I miss all those ‘news’ stories about health-nuts living forever??)
The only way to be sure to bring down health insurance rates would be for everybody to patriotically step in front of a moving bus on their 40th birthday...
“The food in our grocery stores is killing us. All government intervention, up to this point, has thrust more horrid products upon us and ignores well established science all in the name of garnering incresed contributions from the large agri-businesses.”
Bingo. It goes well beyond what is traditionally though of as junk food too. The portions and content of the American diet are so far out of whack, it’s a wonder 95% of Americans aren’t morbidly obese.
Give it time.
Government is one of the main causes of obesity. More government is NOT the solution.
When I say that, I mean that higher taxes and government-caused inflation has forced many women to have to work. The result of that is that many people eat out at fast food places a lot of the time.
Piker, I have lost several thousand pounds, trouble is I seem to find it again.
Some nice research I read last week indicated that a deactivated gene in the heart, med 13, I think, when activated in mice led to obesity relief.
Hardly anyone was fat when I was a kid, we were raised on Beans and Potatoes, Corn, Green Beans, Corn, Corn Bread and lots of lard.
Hitler proved with out a doubt, if you lock people up and work them hard and feed them very little, 100% of them will lose weight.
That looks soooooo good. Hmm...yes, I believe I might just be passing by a KFC later this week...hmm...
Why should you have either? Good grief when we are offered a false choice when none is required it looks like we are getting a good deal, which explains Romney.
I think there's another crisis. All Americans should get paid at least $5,000.00 an hour, just like Brian Williams.
Why are people so willing to make this an either or argument?
Well . . .
So much for “my body, my choice.”
Ohh, hypocrisy.
Pregnant? It’s your body. Fat? It’s our body!
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