tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post7818853823547628033..comments2024-03-28T06:02:08.977-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: Wonder how long it'll take for someone to slip and call them 'useless eaters'?Firehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-91853372152896353912016-09-07T17:56:42.746-07:002016-09-07T17:56:42.746-07:00The trouble with socialism is that sooner or later...The trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you always run out of other people's money. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-53549279524980624342016-09-05T14:01:20.455-07:002016-09-05T14:01:20.455-07:00Aaand, that's what socialized medicine looks l...Aaand, that's what socialized medicine looks like.Pawpawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959820068377494313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-1574836526929129302016-09-05T12:36:23.795-07:002016-09-05T12:36:23.795-07:00If you have a body type like "Pajama Boy"...If you have a body type like "Pajama Boy" the BMI will not be an issue.<br />If however you are an athlete in strength dominated sports, (have a real chest with real arms attached to it and muscled legs), there could be problems. I played football and tossed a shot put. My body type hasn't matched a BMI scale since high school. <br />If you don't match up with the "BMI correct" list but your body fat is 7%, do you get a pass? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-56493871381251315452016-09-05T07:45:04.520-07:002016-09-05T07:45:04.520-07:00"What? Have people TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES? ..."What? Have people TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES? What kind of monster are you?!?"<br /><br />I think a big part of the weight problems is what people eat; it was decided that fat and meat are Bad, and carbohydrates Good so "Eat lots of pasta, rice, bread, that stuff!" And that leads to people gaining weight. But that's the Official Approved Diet, so it continues.Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-14435295209837367442016-09-05T06:01:14.581-07:002016-09-05T06:01:14.581-07:00one thing i have noticed is that there are more ob...one thing i have noticed is that there are more obese people, many of them children.<br />and they are much more obese than those called obese when i was young.<br />the stores now provide motorized shopping carts for the disabled but most using them are incredibly fat.<br />the fat hangs out over the sides of the generously sized seats of the motorized carts.<br /><br />at the grocery store i saw one fat family, who were not so huge they were using the motorized carts, but were obviously too fat for health.<br />they had two carts, one filled to the brim with soda pop.<br /><br />i am not svelte myself, but i have begun to feel like a midget in the last decade as the proportion of fat people seems to have taken off at high speed.<br /><br />i don't know the reason. <br /> i suspect that the kids no longer go out to play but sit home with their electronic toys instead.<br /><br /> deb harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05110992898072146282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-22142858485257339212016-09-04T22:22:01.241-07:002016-09-04T22:22:01.241-07:00Not sure why anyone would be surprised when those ...Not sure why anyone would be surprised when those who pay the bills for something create standards to keep from paying out more than they take in. And that is fundamentally what these decisions are about. People will of course scream and shout about having paid insurance premiums so therefore they 'earned it'. They would be wrong. It's not all that different than FICA/Medicare. The costs of<br />those programs are paid via taxes and the benefits paid are unrelated to the amount the beneficiary paid in to the system. In fact virtually EVERYONE who receives FICA/Medicare benefits gets more out<br />of the system than they put in. That's why it's a legalized Ponzi scheme doomed to collapse eventually. <br /><br />Fat people, smokers and other such types who routinely abuse their bodies cost society far more in healthcare costs then they ever contribute in taxes or insurance premiums. Get enough of these parasites attached to the body of the system and that body will die.<br />The number of fat people are skyrocketing. This means the cost to care for their SELF INFLICTED HEALTH CARE DISEASES is skyrocketing.<br />Something has to give as that which cannot continue will not.<br /><br />This is just one of the first steps in addressing this reality. It<br />is of course not particularly fair and certainly not politically<br />popular. Real world economics seldom is. But something has to be done. If not the system will collaps.<br /><br />The only FAIR way is to end third party payer systems...both .gov<br />type such as the one in England AND the putatively 'private' third<br />party insurance system we have in America. Both systems transfer costs from one person to other people and do so inefficiently with a huge waste of dollars paid to these third parties. And to stay solvent these third parties MUST limit what they will pay for or they<br />won't stay in business for long. Since certain populations...such as smokers and fat people pose a higher cost burden they are logically the groups singled out for denial. <br /><br />To be fair we make ALL healthcare a private personal issue. You SAVE MONEY when you are well to pay for care when you are not. Thus you get the care YOU can afford and no body else has to pay for it PLUS the costs of ALL care will go down as inefficiencies diminish by eliminating third party paperwork. Costs also go down because 'cost <br />shifting' done to pay for .gov mandated care of illegals and other wastes of skin is eliminated. <br /><br />Under such a system people would be incentivized to TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES so they could use their $$$ for other things besides<br />doctors and medicine. <br /><br />That will never happen though because the species HomoSapiens is dead and has been replaced by it's doppleganger HomoStupidicus. We as a species are clever but NOT intelligent. And as a species the one thing we are above all else is greedy. We want something for nothing and we want SOMEONE ELSE TO PAY FOR IT.Dannoreply@blogger.com