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Unhealthy habits should be treated as aggressively as disease, American Heart Association says
FOX News ^ | October 8, 2013 | Amanda Woerner

Posted on 10/08/2013 12:38:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Edited on 10/08/2013 12:50:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badhabits; health; nannystate; preventivecare
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1 posted on 10/08/2013 12:38:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; ...

AHA Doctors Nanny State PING!


2 posted on 10/08/2013 12:39:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Major brain damage at UMES, but no property damage!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Happyface totalitarianism.

God help us.


3 posted on 10/08/2013 12:39:24 PM PDT by redpoll
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And here we go...

We will be told what to do, and when to do it. It’s just that simple. Fortunately, the majority of the American public has been groomed for this.


4 posted on 10/08/2013 12:39:44 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: redpoll

Yep, here it comes...

ACA is the gateway to controlling EVERYTHING you do.


5 posted on 10/08/2013 12:39:55 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This unhealthy country is infected with democrats and liberals. This problem should be eradicated.


6 posted on 10/08/2013 12:40:29 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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When Fascism spreads, it spreads ALL around.


7 posted on 10/08/2013 12:40:43 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

But aren’t liberals messing with the success of Darwinism when they demand healthy behavior by their minions?


8 posted on 10/08/2013 12:41:53 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Gabz

I currently chose to have a high deductible, catastrophic coverage plan and I actually pay for everything out of pocket. However, last year my employer instituted a “tobacco surcharge” that costs $15 a month. I just received our updates for next year and that cost is now $50 a month!


9 posted on 10/08/2013 12:41:57 PM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
While it’s easy to walk into a doctor’s office and leave with a prescription to treat high blood pressure, some physicians don't take the time to address the unhealthy habits that cause these issues in the first place.

It's easier still to not walk into a doctor's office at all.

If I need a lecture on how I'm living my life wrong, I'll go back and visit my high school vice-principal.

10 posted on 10/08/2013 12:42:42 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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It’s telling that the ACA has incorporated “mental health” into its fabric. Be certain that this will be the lynchpin to involuntarily imprison unwilling “participants.”

Declare conservatives who hold their right to own and bear arms and condemn sexual perversion as “incompetent” to remain in society, and they have their pretext.


11 posted on 10/08/2013 12:43:11 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We all know what’s coming. This is how the left thinks. They now have control of our lives.


12 posted on 10/08/2013 12:43:46 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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However, several obstacles stand in the way of making preventive health care more accessible, according to Spring.

Yeah, the foremost being the silly notion that the patient owns his own body.

13 posted on 10/08/2013 12:44:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Especially unhealthy habits like telling other people how to live. That habit can be downright deadly.

/johnny

14 posted on 10/08/2013 12:47:16 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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“preventive health care” means free condoms for school kids.

you got to know the secret gubmint code language.

15 posted on 10/08/2013 12:48:14 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If they want to control something why don’t they limit food stamp purchases fruit & vegetables.


16 posted on 10/08/2013 12:48:39 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Unhealthy habits should be treated as aggressively as disease, American Heart Association says

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Hey! Homosexuality is an unhealthy habit. Lets all treat queerness as a disease. (I certainly do).


17 posted on 10/08/2013 12:48:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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“It’s just abundantly clear that chronic diseases are bankrupting our health care system…,”

That sounds bad, but once you reduce accident rates, work-related injuries, and infectious diseases to the levels we have here, chronic diseases are pretty much all that’s left.

However, the fact that those diseases are blamed for “bankrupting our healthcare system” is an entirely different matter.


18 posted on 10/08/2013 12:48:59 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not a word about male homosexuals with an average lifespan of 45 years and all the drugs given to keep them alive for years while they infect others.


19 posted on 10/08/2013 12:48:59 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: brownsfan

Like living with a common scold, nagging us endlessly.

Until we run screaming from the house, at which time we get scooped up and put in a “re-education facility”.

There is no good outcome, either way.

Adolescence is such a painful period in life. Now we have to be treated to its effects daily, with the perpetual moodiness and tantrums of the eternal juvenile who is posing as the Current Occupant squatting in the White Hut Oval Orifice.


20 posted on 10/08/2013 12:49:31 PM PDT by alloysteel (Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
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