Watch out overweight Americans, the White House “fat police” has set its sights on you. A current Fox News report confirms the Obama Administration demands obesity ratings for all citizens by 2014. Touting concerns for overweight Americans, the President promoted his personal cook to the position of “Food Initiative Coordinator.” White House chef, Sam Kass, now functions as the senior policy adviser for health food initiatives.
Recently, the Health and Human Services Department announced that under the stimulus law, health care professionals must include body mass information in electronic records to qualify for federal subsidies. Neglecting to provide such information threatens cuts to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. Proponents believe the knowledge of BMI motivates people to weight loss and healthy eating. Opponents decry the measure, pointing to another significant act of government intrusion.
Those supporting the measure, point to a recent study conducted by the CDC. The Centers for Disease Control discovered that $147 billion dollars a year cover obesity related health issues. This accounts for 10% of medical expenditures. In an economic downturn, federal deficits decreased by billions seems fiscally responsible, but is the savings worth the invasion of personal privacy?
Demands to control the lives of the obese, hinge upon one obvious truth. The White House covets complete control of its American citizenry and hopes to claw its way into every aspect of our way of life, including our refrigerators and our occasional treks through the fast food lanes at McDonald's. If liberalism truly cared about life, the federal funding of abortions would be denied and the mantra of “safe, legal, and rare” might accentuate the word “rare.” Instead of coordinating efforts to decrease the one million pregnancy terminations per year in this country, the Obama administration chooses to demonize the consumption of excess calories and carbohydrates. America's twisted philosophies and priorities begs for God's Hand of blessing to remain distant.
Maybe the intended goal seeks to deny the overweight insurance coverage or to charge citizens of larger girth higher premiums. The financial obligation to cover the government option strikes fear in those calculating future budgets, and if chunky Americans can foot the bill, so be it.
Some joke the government desires to create a super race of human beings, denying the less healthy or fit the right to medical coverage or access to medical care. Quite possibly those with a generous BMI will be required to wear electronic devices, sending out pings when the obese patronize Baskin Robbins. The President feared racial profiling leveled against people visiting ice cream stands in Arizona, but now there's potential for the government to rush in with a response team and a caliper when an overweight person orders a double dip cone.
A Washington Post article in 2001 contained the following, “...the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Unfortunately, you have to get it past his gag reflex first.” Controlling the eating habits of Americans may lead to a united “gag” in 2014, provided the mid-term elections don't set us upon a more conservative and lesser invasive political course.
It's dinner time. Gotta run before Big Mac's end up on the endangered list.