[rodeocowboy]

This is what happens when states provide/participate in MedicAid/welfare-medical programs. So many people are on MedicAid now, that we pretty much have unofficial, socialized medicine.

Men's Health Magazine has a report in this month's issue in favor of states and localities adding a sin tax to fast food and possibly suing McDonalds. Some lawyers are already lobbying localities to sue.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

So many people are on MedicAid now, that we pretty much have unofficial, socialized medicine.

Medicare is socialized medicine for the elderly. They use it, the rest of us pay it but can't use it.

[cgbg]

This is what happens when states provide/participate in MedicAid/welfare-medical programs. So many people are on MedicAid now, that we pretty much have unofficial, socialized medicine. Men's Health Magazine has a report in this month's issue in favor of states and localities adding a sin tax to fast food and possibly suing McDonalds. Some lawyers are already lobbying localities to sue.

It is going to get much worse than that.

The _largest_ expenditures on socialized medicine are not due to overweight people. The are due to (hang on to your chairs) dying people. That's right--people of all kinds who are very sick, in comas, on machines, etc. spend something like 50% of the total health care costs in the last weeks of their life.

How are the liberals going to deal with that?

The liberals are also going to find out that very old people use a disproportionate percentage of the health care system.

This has been a science fiction dystopia theme for a long time--and we better all start quaking in fear. The liberal's nanny state can only lead to one vicious solution--involuntary euthanasia.

First they came for the gun-owners, then the smokers, then the fat people. Next they will come for you!