What a friggin’ waste of our tax dollars.
Now that fedgov has a financial interest in our health, it makes sense that they’d try to control costs. This is just the beginning.
Just like seatbelt laws (because not wearing seatbelts adds to health insurance costs). Now we’ll get, eventually, the entire UN vegan/vegetarian low salt low protein diet to keep us “healthy” and not costing much for healthcare, plus dying at 65 to avoid geriatric care. Population control will figure in, as well, Paul Erlich is still revered.
So this will save tax dollars! We just won’t live as long.
Agree. I suspect this is not so much a power grab to control everyone as it is a scheme to funnel more money and benefits to his usual constituents. Like Michelle and her “food desserts”, which provides an excuse to bully supermarkets to locate in high-risk neighborhood, these “recommendations” will mean more opportunities to subsidize the lower class, which is, after all, the least healthy segment of our population. Along with grocery stores, look to see pressure to establish health clubs in the inner cities with subsidized club memberships, free summer camps for the inner city kids, grants to academics to study the lower classes, more grants to ACORN to coordinate care of the lower class, pressure on graduating physicians to practice in the inner cities, eminent domain to create parks, destruction of roads to create bike paths, more federal, state and local government employees to run health programs. On and on, ways to increase benefits without seeming to increase welfare or create new government jobs. And all sanctioned by the recommendations of this “nonpartisan” council.