Do Health Care Naysayers Have “Too Much Skin” In The Game?

As long as the bill makes it OK to hunt fatties for sport, they can protest as much as they want. Oh wait, it doesn’t?
well hell, I ain’t gonna vote for that neither.
ed note: I’d highlight both cameramen and about 10 other people in that picture too.

There may be better ways to approach this because I think fears like the fear that under a government run health system, if you lived an unhealthy life you may not get the care someone else will get, is fueling their rage. Seriously – we can’t start on lifestyle – that’s going to really set it off because that plays into the whole “death panel” idea.
And that’s a loaded area, AFAIC. And here’s my disclaimer – I’m 5′4″ and I weigh 107 lbs. I’m not making excuses for overweight people – I find it appalling that we’ve cone to this, especially so many obese children. But I just think it fuels the already flaming fires of “rationing” and “death panels” and the whole thing.

Bringing what looks like hypocrisy to the attention of “overweight” people is not “blaming” them. A fair percentage of the “overweight” are self-indulgent fatties that make excuses for their failure to strip off their clothes and stare into a “full-sized” mirror long enough to raise their consciousness as to one [in fairness not the only but surely the ultimate] source of their obesity and lack of fitness [which is BOTH physical and mental. Query: Are there "powerful, emotional, family social, cultural and economic forces contributing to their lack of consciousness? Sure, but personal responsibility for how one thinks begins at home]. Eating is a voluntary act that can be made into a conscious act, IF there is effort on behalf of the eater. Many [sure not all] are simply mentally lazy as is demonstrated by what they say at the town meetings. Consider: Would it be unfair to ask them, in an effort to determine their attempts at fitness, whether they walked or drove to the town meeting if it was about conservation? No. Same goes for providing health care. A question that points out hypocrisy is always fair.

*sigh* Holding the thought in reserve, without giving it voice, might just save my sanity. More than likely the accused would argue it’s one more example of leftist elitism; health club and gym memberships, personal trainers, organic food, cyclists in spandex obstructing my roads…

well people abuse all sorts of organs through choices: smokers decimate their lungs, drinkers their livers, crack users their brains. just because you want to call human body fat an organ, is that any reason to try to keep people from destroying themselves?

Side note – I love the detail of the fat guy in the left foreground, clutching the huge bottle of Coca-cola.

Here’s a good example of why you cannot dictate what someone does with their own body – when China outlawed foot binding, the authorities insisted that women with bound feet unbind them.
Well, you can’t unbind bound feet – it causes more problems than it creates.

wonder what this suggests about alzheimer’s.

this is also emblematic of a bunch of farmers getting fat off taxpayer subsidies. this is what welfare looks like.