Obesity Rating Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS

CNS News ^ | 7/15/2010 | Matt Cover

[IbJensen]

The Worst Lady is a lard butt so we need to have our privacy invaded by the Federal government. Talk about projection! We had better overturn this BS as well as everything enacted by the evil regime after the next presidential election. And Obama thinks Americans support this?

What a joke.

[SpaceBar]

Makes it easier to decide who goes to the soap factories.

[P.O.E.]

Michelle Obama has made dealing with the problem of childhood obesity the main theme of her term as First Lady.

Cue the "Yo First Lady So Fat" jokes.

[Sacajaweau]

The BMI is no big deal.....it’s the sharing that is none of the government’s business....or their business to pass on MY info...

[DaxtonBrown]

Orwellian. Where do I report to the Department of BMI?

[jwparkerjr]

It's a major problem when the feds or state pass a law that gives an agency the power to draw up the regulations under that law. It means non-elected bureaucrats are making the rules, rules which have the effect of law.

[silverleaf]

makes it easier to decide who gets priority for medical treatment

fat black people = underserved community - front of the vaccine line
fat white people = overserved community - back of the vaccine line. and forget that transplant...

[SpaceBar]

Call me paranoid, but all this stuff with first the census, and now detailed health records for all citizens reminds me of a termite inspection before a house is sold.

[muawiyah]

The folks in charge of all this appear to be unaware of the existence and power of simple arithmetic.

If you have the height and weight of the person you can compute the body/mass index on an as needed basis.

Still, it's a fundamentally useless number for the provision of medical services to anyone. First of all it fails to account for quite profound racial differences among various groups. Your basic Negrito in the Philippines is just not organized like your 7 foot tall Viking type in Latvia for example, so the fact they had DIFFERENT body/mass index values wouldn't really help a medical team out in figuring out what to do should one of them have a broken arm and the other had a broken leg.

This high tech stuff ought to allow us to begin pushing back the shadows of "ignance" ~ not impose those shadows on everybody!

[DemforBush]

“The new regulations also stipulate that the new electronic records be capable of sending public health data to state and federal health agencies such as HHS and CDC”

Just thought I’d mention that Obama’s CDC Director, Thomas Frieden, was the guy who made it mandatory for NYC doctors to report the results of their patients’ blood glucose tests to the NYC Dept. of Health.

[P.O.E.]

Or sizing up the slave to determine what function they could perform.

[Uncle Ike]

/misquote

First, they came for the smokers, and you cheered, because you were not a smoker...

Next, they came for the fatties...

/misquote

“Demonize>Marginalize>Criminalize”!!

[Ayn And Milton]

Good reasoning! I’d add that it is indeed worthless, as you say it, but it is also squeezing different folks into the same silly and samey set of parameters.

I am thinking of the GDR of old, now.

[reegs]

Your First Lady is so fat, the back of her neck looks like a package of hotdogs!

[RatRipper]

there could be a huge difference between two people who are 5’10” weighing 220: one could be sloppy fat and the other ripped with muscle. This is ridiculous.

[Sacajaweau]

Looking for perfect human beings only. Does that sound familiar??

[Sooth2222]

I’m intending to refuse to be weighed. I’m not obese, but I’m not going to cooperate with this nonsense.

[IbJensen]

Think of the excitement! We’re finally beginning to live in a true Communist nation!

An underground will be formed and fighting socialist government troops will follow. Minutemen brigades will be formed to fight the communist dictator and his minions.

We’ll have spies and daily news stories about ‘some’ confrontations. We’ll get to share our one family homes with many families.

We’ll have long lines trying to get a loaf of bread with a basket of worthless money.

Our children will be indoctrinated and become members of the Socialist Amerika Young Pioneers who will tattle to the gauleiters as to critical remarks uttered by their unenlightened parents.

Many concentration camps will spring up in every state filled with those fortunate enough not to have been executed. Think of all the jobs that will be created for illegal aliens that will guard and torture us.

[originalbuckeye]

The Government will use these statistics to decide who is ‘worthy’ of life preserving health care. This is the end of American personal freedom. All in the name of requiring us to do what the Left deems is good for us. To quote Anna from the ABC series ‘V’, 'we will use their emotions against them just like we did the Americans' (referring to the takeover of another nation).

[muawiyah]

Look, even Erik Honnaker knew how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. You don't get to be Communist Party Secretary without those basic skills, if only to keep track of the bodies!

The number is readily computed by anyone who thinks he needs it. Frankly no one needs it so there's no need to compute it and add it to my medical record ~ I'd much rather have "prefers seal loin lightly sauteed without butter" Now that's a much more useful bit of information!.