The Blame Game Continues
Published on July 30, 2009 By Daiwa In Politics

The media are doing their part to help BO in so many ways.  The idea that fat people should be blamed & held responsible for their health care costs, while the fit & thin get the free ride, is gaining traction thanks to articles like this.

The only silver lining, should obesity taxes & surcharges become a reality, is that they would hit Michael Moore the hardest.


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on Aug 16, 2009

It is real basic, business makes a profit based on the consumers ability to pay. Price it too high and you don't make money. if a carwash cost a thousand dollars few people would pay for it and the carwash goes out of business

You just can't help continuing to make a fool of yourself, can you? Insurance does not work like car washes. Again, it's all about risk.

 

By the way, here's someone else bashing the fat:

http://www2.wholefoodsmarket.com/blogs/jmackey/2009/08/14/health-care-reform-full-article/

many of our health care problems are self-inflicted with over 2/3 of Americans now overweight and 1/3 obese.  Most of the diseases which are both killing us and making health care so expensive-heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and obesity, which account for about 70% of all health care spending, are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal or no alcohol consumption, and other healthy lifestyle choices.

Foul liberal scum, talking about how many of the healthcare problems are caused from obesity. He just wants UHC so everyone else can pay for his healthcare.

on Aug 16, 2009

You just can't help continuing to make a fool of yourself, can you? Insurance does not work like car washes. Again, it's all about risk.

Yes, it is about risk, it is also about what the market will stand. The risk of you getting cancer from drinking water is low in America but high in other countries where they don't have good water. So if a person from the Philippines comes here to live they have a higher risk of cancer but that risk is not something the insurance companies look at. The risk of a fat person getting sick is higher than a normal sized person but lower than a very thin person. Why is it that we don’t have a tax on the thin? The health risks are the same for both fat and thin but we are only picking on the fat. Is that fair to you? Black people have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure that leads to strokes. Should we charge extra to insure a black person? You seem happy to pick on fat people for now but just remember that as soon as we allow this all the other groups that have high risk factors come into play, gays, and blacks to get started. They already charge more for smokers, and people who take antidepressants, where does it stop? It stops when people stop getting insurance and self insure. It stops when doctors stop taking insurance. I know a few that have stopped already. They charge less for a visit to them because they get paid in cash and don’t have to wait for the insurance company to pay them.

on Aug 16, 2009

Foul liberal scum, talking about how many of the healthcare problems are caused from obesity. He just wants UHC so everyone else can pay for his healthcare.

Uh, no - his op-ed article was against UHC.  You must have just assumed that, in an 'instant.'

on Aug 16, 2009

Uh, no - his op-ed article was against UHC. You must have just assumed that, in an 'instant.'

Its that reading comprehenson thng, When one is  blind to facts everything they read goes their way if there is a hink that it might. Notice how he edited the article down to just what he believed it should mean and say. Going out of context like most liberals do. That is why I ignored that part of it because if he is quoting it in this way he is either lieing to himself or he is trying to mislead us by chaning the context of the article. Mayvbe he was hoping that we would not read it and just assume that was all it said. Either way he is not trustworthy on this issue. Or maybe he got it off a liberal site and did not read the article himself.

on Aug 17, 2009

Uh, no - his op-ed article was against UHC

Its that reading comprehenson thng, When one is  blind to facts everything they read goes their way if there is a hink that it might

It's funny enough when one person makes a complete fool of themself, but when two people do it independently, with neither of them realising, it's hilarious!

on Aug 17, 2009

Oh, we aim to please, no doubt.  Glad to feed your ego.

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