Government Panel Recommends Professional Nagging for Fat People?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/06/27 15:52:41

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A federal health care panel recommends mandatory counseling for fat people, paid for by insurance companies.

This was a “task force.” A task force sounds important. I mean, the U.S. Navy has task forces.

In government circles, a task force is a committee that is expected to produce a report. Then the report is filed away and ignored.

Let us hope this report is filed away and ignored. If it becomes part of the law, our health insurance premiums will rise.

This task force has a name, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. It sounds important.

It recommends preventative services. What are preventative services? Nagging. But not just nagging. Nagging by state-licensed professional naggers.

Karen E 2012/06/27 17:55:38

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crap, now they demand to be paid for nagging....only a nagger could come up with this idea.........half a year if one is considered fat? and using the bmi does not take into variables , just a pre-set.....norm......... what next, if you are old nagged to death if you considered of no use to the hive............my bad did not time rag recently have a cover on how to die?

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Kimmel 2012/06/27 15:55:38

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More government workers. Isn't that special!

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~ The Rebel ~ 2012/06/27 15:53:33

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Under Medicare, taxpayers must provide these nagging services. There is a small co-pay. The task force wants this policy to spread to all private health insurance.

Consider the cost of this for about 50 million adult Americans in the “30 or higher” BMI classification.

The task force concluded after a review of the medical literature that the most successful programs in improving patients’ health were “intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions.” They involve 12 to 26 counseling sessions a year with a physician or community-based program, the panel said.

http://teapartyeconomist.com/...

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