The 2012 London Olympics told me so.
Posted on 09/04/2016 8:39:07 AM PDT by Nachum
Yes, the infamous, never going to happen death panels.
Morbidly obese people and smokers have already set up their own death panel and voted.
There would be nothing wrong with them.
Well I am 5'6", 135 lbs and have a ruptured disc in my lower back. It happened when I was pregnant with my son. I have never had a weight problem, and at the time I was actually thinner but for the baby weight, but I do have scoliosis. So that was the combo that did it for me.
I don't qualify for surgery because I am in shape and functional. I have to be satisfied with spinal steroid injections every 3 months. The people I do know who have had surgery to correct it are all obese!! Yeah, that does piss me off to no end.
“A black hole is correct, but is it OK to say that?”
Nope. John Wiley Price says it’s racist and you should say white hole.
Nothing like dodging oncoming side-by-side convoys in the aisles when Lardbutt Lady and Daddys Little Fat are each on one of those and on a sugar run.
Saw a show on tv about a 600 pound person who had to go on a diet before getting gastric bypass surgery. Go figure.
that's right ! No smoking, but repeated bouts of hepatitis, HPV, herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia as well as chronic substance abuse and HIV - no problem !
btw a BMI of 30 for a six foot man is 225 pounds, maybe to heavy but not huge.
Physicians think twice before operating on obese patients. The procedure is harder to do , having to go through layers of fat . Theobese patient has a much higher complication rate. Infection is a huge risk factor. When your complication rate is elevated due to operating on obese patients, you run the risk of losing insurance provider status and having your complications reviewed by the hospital. It is not worth the risk. If you want surgery, lose the weight.
If you want surgery, lose the weight.
quite true...
If you’re generally unhealthy, no problem. I would be considered obese by most health charts, however, my cholesterol, blood pressure, and bloodwork come back perfect every visit. My husband and son, on the other hand are the ones who max out our health insurance deductible every year for tests, surgeries, etc...
I am on no prescriptions. I have a Thyroid prescription that I let run out and don’t take because it didn’t help me feel any better. I manage my Thyroid symptoms with supplements and food choices.
My husband and son (whose 24) are on multiple prescriptions.
Human beings always have to pick on a class of people to feel better about themselves. Can’t pick on blacks, gays, hispanics or muslims, so it’s open season on anyone who is a little rounder than most.
My Mother in law who is highly “fit” according to weight charts has been in the hospital too many times for me to count and on too many prescriptions for me to know them all.
Every disease, illness, or injury is ALWAYS attributed to weight. I personally think they should just add “being human”. Even skinny, fit, and socially desirable people get sick, get cancer and die.
This hypothyroid, 50 year old woman gave up on her thyroid medication because it didn’t help, had multiple Dr’s who had no idea what to do, can’t eat a huge list of foods, eats 1/2 of what a “normal” person eats, is bigger than most women, and gets verbally shamed by complete strangers.
Fortunately, I’m not a teenage, insecure girl, and tell people to Eff Off when I need to.
The 2012 London Olympics told me so.
they prolly sat on their azzes while on the dole and got fat, now they want the same taxpayers to pay for an operation, same as here but here they get the operation
The complex and sophisticated rationalizations that fat people invent to justify fatitude, is one reason they are a menace to society. That and they way they drive those carts at Walmart.
That should cut costs by about 90%.
Agree. My BMI is 25 but I work dang hard at it. People who smoke and are overweight are not spreading diseases to other people, innocent people, in many cases. It seems nothing is too good for the pervert alliance. After all, they have us all calling them “gay” and homowood says they are normal.
I support the right of people to eat and smoke as they wish. I don’t do either but I certainly don’t condemn them.
Former UK fatso (75 stone) Paul Mason cost the UK health care system a huge amount of money. Estimated at more than a million pounds.
and prolly never had a productive day in his life
I am 80 years old and have smoked from one to four packs a day for at least 65 years, I have some stopped up arteries, some of the doctors has told me that quiting smoking was the best cure.
If stopping smoking is the miracle cure then why did they come up with stents and by passes, the doctor who is going to do a bypass has not even mentioned smoking.
My primary doctor told me that after all of the studies done on smoking they have came to only one conclusion, that is, it is best not to smoke, if you do smoke it is best not to worry about it.
To hell with Poverty: Chances are when it is time for you to get the operation they will find that it should have been done sooner.
That is the way they work, it is not what is best for you, it is what is best for them, they will give you an appointment to come bnack in a month when you should have been operated on yesterday.
I thought it was a hoot that they didn't even bother with trying to use any subtlety in their message.
I am a nurse, and I remember when a morbidly obese patient who had knee pain asked me if she should have her insurance pay for a wheelchair so she could get around at work. I told her that it would be better for her health to try to ambulate, instead of using a wheelchair. I was very nice about it, but perplexed that this obese woman did not even want to walk at her secretary job a few feet per day in her office. For that, I got a complaint letter to my supervisor from this obese patient. Her complaint was ignored. In my current job we are told not to use the word “obese” because that is now considered insulting. I cannot wait for retirement. I am sure the Bit doctors are very happy about this rule.
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