Posted on 08/10/2009 9:34:04 PM PDT by Libloather
Health reform idea: Put down the doughnut
Critics say consequences of individual choice missing from reform debate
By JoNel Aleccia
Health writer msnbc.com
updated 8:18 a.m. ET, Mon., Aug 10, 2009
If you ask Dr. Steven Spady, there are two important words missing from the nation’s conversation about health reform: “personal responsibility.”
But Spady, a 54-year-old emergency physician in rural Kentucky, can’t talk about the topic right now. He’s too busy caring for people who he says don’t take care of themselves.
“I just had to go take care of man that left our hospital this morning and now has gone and got drunk and will suck up more health care dollars,” Spady wrote in a hurried e-mail late on a recent weeknight.
**SNIP**
“It just makes me very upset when I have to pay more and more taxes to support government health care programs and have to work longer and longer hours to help a lot of people that just don’t seem to care,” he wrote.
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Something was criminal. Maybe the smell.
I’ve told this story before but it really grates on me. I had a girlfriend whose parents were flaming leftist card-carrying members of Amnesty International hate Bush blah blah— meanwhile, they were thinking of every way possible to get out of paying their taxes. Pretending to employ so and so, all kinds of crazy stuff.
Somebody should tell Ed Schultz the host of “The Ed Schultz Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show promising “straight talk from the heartland” from a “gun-totin’, red meat-eatin’ lefty.”
And when 0bummerCare is instituted, NOBODY WILL HAVE TO CARE, because they won't pay their own way.
Call it the Personal Non-Responsibility Bill.
(as they confiscate our medical plans and health security.)
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Suddenly leftist statists are talking a lot about obesity. But what is the number one supplier of food in this country? Can we talk about 34 million on food stamps, school lunch programs, school breakfast programs, etc.? All are needs tested by income rather than by BMI, I hear ads pa id by government whining about people going hungry, but they never discuss whether going hungry might be good for some of them. Maybe government should take some responsibility for feeding the obesity problem.
leftists of any size should only be allowed arugula and bottled water.
I can only assume those leftists still living in their parent's basement will be excluded from Hussein's Deathcare™
Government is largely responsible for the infamous (and recently revised) “food pyramid” — the stuff-yourself-with-carbs road map that formed the basis for menus in public (and many private) schools, colleges, government (and many private employers’) cafeterias, etc. While the increasingly sedentary lifestyles of the information age have certainly played a significant role in the obesity/diabetes epidemic, it appears that the food pyramid may have caused at least as much, if not more damage.
Amen to that.
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