Under new federal regulations in Obama’s America a commissar will decide if you are too fat

The Collins Report ^ | July 17, 2010 | Kevin “Coach” Collins

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Suck in that gut and start working off that muffin top midriff. The nervy Marxists who run our lives have given themselves the power to decide who is and who is not too fat to receive government healthcare benefits. Under a new law signed by Obama our medical records will include our height and weight and our Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine if we are obese by government standards.

BMI will be part of our permanent electronic health record and will be available for inspection “with appropriate security measures--on a national exchange.” In other words a clerk (union member of course) who was hired because he or she was otherwise unemployable could look at our private medical records and stamp “LARD ASS” on the folder jacket.

This change won’t happen right away. These things never happen overnight. The plan aims to have all of this in place by 2014 in time for the Death Panels to use BMI to ration health care made scarce by Obama’s Socialized medicine scheme.

Cloaked in the official sounding name of “electronic health records” and hidden in the 2009 economic stimulus law, this plot requires health care providers to practice what these newspeak artists call “meaningful use” of electronic records.

In order words your doctor or any hospital ….., you go to, will be required to establish a BMI for you so it can be used in determining your future.

It takes one to know one

Under these regulations we could have someone like the corpulent current Surgeon General Regina Brown who seems to stuff a lot of woman into her fancy uniform, measuring our waist and lecturing us about those extra helpings of mashed potatoes.

Presumably with a straight face, General Brown explained the need for such paternalism by saying “BMI……

[RipSawyer]

I was once a smoker but I quit at age 29, I am 66 now.

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Kagan is way too fat for the SCOTUS.

[KeyLargo]

July 16, 2010 11:07 AM
Should Obese Kids be Put in Foster Care?
Posted by Neil Katz

(CBS) Should morbidly obese kids be put in foster care? It’s a provocative question, but that’s exactly what a group of health care specialists on the other side of the pond are recommending.

Their logic? If children can be removed from a home because of health risks like physical and mental abuse or failure to care for health problems like asthma or epilepsy, why not a long term health risk like obesity which can create a life long struggle with diabetes and heart problems.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20010776-10391704.html