Posted on 07/15/2010 4:14:42 PM PDT by pissant
New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records--that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year--must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.
The obesity-rating regulation states that every American's electronic health record must: Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patients height and weight.
The law also requires that these electronic health records be available--with appropriate security measures--on a national exchange.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
It’s a good idea, IMO
Oh, my allergies kill me constantly. I just use the internet to get what I need.
Seriously, I really DO need to see a doc but I just don’t want to hear what they have to say. Drop the weight, start exercising, start eating like an adult and not a teenager. Blah,blah,blah! Eat right, exercise, die anyway. No one gets out of this life alive.
I have. I want to know how to go galt on this, and every other bull$hit piece of legislation they pass. I’m ready for some civil disobedience.
Oh, yeah... I”ll be scalping donuts to fat people on the sidewalk outside the super!
Stock up on sugar and the foods that go with it. It will be worth it's weight in gold.
Well, I’m not as fit as I used to be, but I can still move when I need to...
So, if they want to include my BMI, the can simply kiss my fat arse, and pack a lunch, because it’ll take them all day, as far as I am concerned...
— Reason number 1562 to repeal this government healthcare BS...
“appropriate security measures” means that any federal employee, most state employees, and hosts of others can see your child’s BMI, but not you, because of HIPA.
Now I know why the article below alarmed me.
Perceived racism linked to weight gain, Boston researchers say
May 26, 2009
http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/05/experience_of_r.html
Simply publishing their names, what they've demanded, and where they can be found will probably result in the total destruction of the effectiveness of their office ~ whatever it might have been before this nonsense came along.
Last thing most the mid and lower level folks in government agencies want is a lot of hate mail and threats.
This piece of nonsense guarantees they'll get a lot of both.
It's going to cost something to maintain armed guards at their suite too ~ their own fellow employees are not going to think highly of this one ~ AND, worst of all, they can no longer trust the buffet lunch at NIH, and that refrigerator they all share with "the other office" next door ~ that's out too!
Really doesn’t matter. BMI is junk science. There’s no objective use for it. The people who put the requirement in the regulations should be shown the error of their ways anyway.
I heard that there are Dunkin Donuts everywhere in Boston. I cannot even imagine what would happen to them.
I think that the BMI standards included a significant number of smokers.
Obama, a smoker, will have no problem meeting the standard.
Neither will Ann Coulter.
But those of us who don’t smoke will have a more difficult time escaping the fascist dragnet.
my bmi was just done, weighed in with all my clothes at 250 lbs... when it came to height he rounded down to 5.9 because of my shoes... i asked why not round up... you’re weighing all my clothes?
no response... i have very little “fat” i am big barreled chested, solid, now i am obese.
teeman
I hear ya. I was just at the gym, bench pressing more than anyone else in there by a fair margin. Yet I too am apparently “overweight” bordering on obese. Spare me from the twigs and pencil-necked geeks that are jealous of people willing to and disciplined enough to work out. I don’t want their BMI.
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