Posted on 07/16/2010 7:17:46 AM PDT by traumer
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 patient’s height and weight.”
The law also requires that these electronic health records be available--with appropriate security measures--on a national exchange.
The new regulations are one of the first steps towards the government’s goal of universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, as outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law. Specifically, the regulations issued on Tuesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, define the "meaningful use" of electronic records. Under the stimulus law, health care providers--including doctors and hospitals--must establish "meaningful use" of EHRs by 2014 in order to qualify for federal subsidies. After that, they will be subjected to penalties in the form of diminished Medicare and Medicaid payments for not establishing "meaningful use" of EHRs.
Section 3001 of the stimulus law says: "The National Coordinator shall, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies (including the National Institute of Standards and Technology), update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (developed as of June 3, 2008) to include specific objectives, milestones, and metrics with respect to the following: (i) The electronic exchange and use of health information and the enterprise integration of such information.‘‘(ii) The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014."
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Since the “obesity ratings” put just about every NBA and NFL player in the “obese” category, I wonder whatMichelle Obama will think about the term that it included in her record.
It’s coming....a fat tax!
I don’t think I want to play along.....
Eff these people!
In practice, the BMI classifies very tall, skinny people as obese, and very short fat people as normal or even underweight. Michelle My Bell probably thinks she's underweight because her fraudulent BMI says so, and that's why the lard-ass feels free to tell everybody else they're fat.
The BMI is a flawed mathematical calculation, and the federal bureaucracy is going to insist upon using it for one simple reason: it allows them to punish people.
Please note that there are no cubic factors in this formula, which means it is not taking into account the volume of the person.
Mathematically, a 6' tall person should weigh 8 times what a 3' tall person weighs, since they are twice as tall and have a volume 23 = 8 times that of the smaller person.
The fact that they are going to use this calculation proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Obama and his minions are either completely stupid, or completely evil. There are no other choices.
Worse than that. This is just the first step in using Obamacare to justify having the government micromanage every single detail of our lives. For the good of the people dontcha know.
Mr Zuben, we’ve means-tested you and you flunk. Royally. Don’t come back until you’re skinny-sick.
I truly believe that ALL democrats fall into one of these two categories, stupid or evil.
The runt is expected to be pudgy, and the next Lew Alcindor has to be a bean pole.
Wonder what our favorite lefty fatso, Michael Moore, has to say about this?
You can thank the fist lady for this one. What you eat, when you eat and how much you eat is none of the governments business. This just shows how much control over you that the government wants.
“Wonder what our favorite lefty fatso, Michael Moore, has to say about this?”
Good point! But I imagine he’ll be silent for once.
Michael Moore alert! He will have to fly to Cuba for treatment, but what the heck, he will love it. According to him, they have the best medicine.
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If the BMI is simply calculated from the height and weight, it is a ridiculous exercise to write down the result.
This puts women like me, short and curvy with a sturdy skeletal system, firmly in the overweight to obese category - when we’re really not. Then what, are they going to try to control food intake? This is all such a gigantic cluster.
Short and curvy hmmmm? I like it.
Say goodbye to the female vote, Barry...
“Papers please.” < /hollywood nazi accent >
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