Health Care and the Correlation Between Obesity and Poverty.
August 18, 2009 No CommentsI was just perusing my new diet of obesity articles and trying to make sense of it all. With daily attention focused on the health care debate, obesity cannot go unmentioned, but targeted as the BIG cause of health care cost.
I remember when the anti smoking activist were suggesting that if we cut smoking we would save a lot of money on health care. My first couple of thoughts on this was since we’ve cut smoking by more than 50% why are we still talking about a health care crisis in American, and then where is all that money we were suppose to save? So why are we now shifting our focus from smokers to porkers? Maybe they need a new villain? Then a humorous thouth occurred to me, maybe it’s precisely because America stopped smoking that they gained more weight…hmmm?
So what now, is the solution to this weight gain to start smoking again? No you know that’s not going to happen folks what they are proposing now is to tax the fat people who are causing the problem. Some people are saying; “why do I have to pay for fat peoples choices?” and to a point I agree I don’t think anyone other than me should take responsibility for my decisions. But this assumes that all fat people are fat because of choice which I don’t agree with.
What is more puzzling about this debate is the correlation between obesity and poverty. They make the point that poor people eat the way they do because they can’t afford healthy food. So what’s their answer? Tax the junk food they can afford! Now wait just a minute I thought we needed universal health care for those who cannot afford it and your gonna what?
Now let me see if I understand this, we need to pass universal health care because the poor cannot afford it and then turn around and tax obesity causing foods which will harm the wallets of the poor? I mean people who can afford the tax on soda is just going to keep on buying it, but the poor can’t have it because they can’t afford it? Serious disconnect! Somehow I don’t think they care about the obese or the poor.
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