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Alabama workers to pay for extra pounds [Fatties pay more for insurance]
MSNBC ^ | 8/21/08

Posted on 08/21/2008 5:26:15 PM PDT by mngran2

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1 posted on 08/21/2008 5:26:15 PM PDT by mngran2
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Is this based on weight alone?

If a guy has a 32” waist and a 46” chest, is he considered obese?


2 posted on 08/21/2008 5:28:48 PM PDT by proxy_user
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Post your picture, please. I need to be certain you aren’t a self-hating obese person.


3 posted on 08/21/2008 5:31:27 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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Do gays pay more for insurance? And if not, why not?

How about alcoholics?

Drug users?

People who live in violent neighborhoods?

Nope - can't go after any liberal groups - no matter what their health risks.

4 posted on 08/21/2008 5:32:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (If Obama can't stand up to Hillary, he can't stand up to North Korea. Iran. Or anyone.)
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Don’t worry, the government will look up some statistical chart and tell whether they think you’re too fat.

The nanny state in all its glory.


5 posted on 08/21/2008 5:32:04 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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Oh. And post your mothers picture too. Lots of normally sized people get a complex when Mother is sagging here and there.

And the kids, please.


6 posted on 08/21/2008 5:32:53 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: mngran2

What’s the surcharge for those that ride those inherently dangerous motorcycles? Skydivers? How about them homersexials that explore all manner of bizarre foofoo? Those HIV meds are expensive. Sheesh.


7 posted on 08/21/2008 5:35:45 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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No, it's not weight-based. In the ten years I've lived down here, I've seen skinny high school girls with a roll of fat around their waistbands, and you wouldn't believe how many more with flat-out pus guts! In all my years, I've never seen so many females that are built like long-haul truckers between the boobs and the knees. It's like some sort of genetic anomaly. It's definitely related to dietary and lifestyle choices. Go into your average supermarket down here, and salad bars don't exist. Olive bars in upscale neighborhoods, maybe, but that's as far as it goes. Southern cooking and the Internet have turned a lot of people into non-motile masses of lipids in this region.


9 posted on 08/21/2008 5:40:44 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Barak Obama is as inept as a bear cub with his dink.)
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To: mngran2

Liberalism is killing this country, far faster than fat people.


10 posted on 08/21/2008 5:44:28 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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Sad to say, sexually active homosexual men are prone to a whole host of diseases, not just HIV. If we’re going to start grouping people by risk to health, homosexual men should be at or near the top of the list.

Now, will homosexual men ever be singled out as such? Of course not, wouldn’t be politically correct. Why is it politically correct to pick out heavy people for this?

While excess weight is a health concern, why is it being picked on before some others, such as homosexuality or drug use, or drinking?


11 posted on 08/21/2008 5:49:54 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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That's a good point.There are many groups that should pay more for health insurance and those who don't belong to any of them should be allowed to benefit.

Homosexuals,drug abusers,smokers,fatties and others should pay more....just as a skydiver,smokers and people who have certain medical conditions pay more for life insurance.

12 posted on 08/21/2008 5:52:13 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bin ein beginner")
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First they came for the smokers. Then they came for the lardasses. Then they came for the...


13 posted on 08/21/2008 5:55:05 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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Another reason employer provided insurance is a bad idea.

BMI measurements (based solely on weight/height) are poor indicators of health. BMI doesn't take into consideration fat/muscle, etc.

A recent study suggested that about half of overweight people and nearly a third of obese people have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, while about a quarter of people considered to be normal weight suffer from the ills associated with obesity.

The assumption is that thinner people must be healthy and must engage in healthier habits. After all, they're thin! It is impossible to tell from someone's BMI alone whether people are healthy or not, what they eat, how much they exercise, etc.

14 posted on 08/21/2008 5:59:52 PM PDT by Flo Nightengale (Keep sweet? I'll show you sweet.....)
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First they came for the smokers. Then they came for the lardasses. Then they came for the...

I'm OK until they start coming after dumbies

15 posted on 08/21/2008 6:00:27 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP! It's gonna be a BIG one.)
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You and me both.


16 posted on 08/21/2008 6:02:45 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: GOPJ

I disagree....

if you smoke or are overwieght you pay more for life insurance...

if you are a lousy driver you pay more for auto insurance...

if you live near an ocean you pay more for home insurance...

why shouldn’t obese people, smokers and those who have habits which can lead to health problems but ones WHICH THEY CAN CONTROL not pay more for health insurance???


17 posted on 08/21/2008 6:12:37 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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No, just a simply way to save the tax payer some money.


18 posted on 08/21/2008 7:04:56 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton (Texan Pride)
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To: Flo Nightengale
BMI measurements (based solely on weight/height) are poor indicators of health. BMI doesn't take into consideration fat/muscle, etc.

True, but the BMI is a simple number to get. And according to the article someone who is 5.6 and weighs 220 has a BMI of 30. So a BMI of 35 is way up there.

19 posted on 08/21/2008 7:09:26 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: God luvs America

I’m glad fat assed, do nothing Alabama government employees will have to pay to price of this edict.

ROFL.


20 posted on 08/21/2008 7:24:37 PM PDT by Hilltop (Control the high ground. Control the battlefield.)
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