Posted on 05/20/2013 1:00:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The federal Affordable Care Act, better known as “ObamaCare,” may provide activists and government a little-known wedge to advance their obesity agendas through regulated health-care providers — specifically America’s nearly 3,000 non-profit hospitals. One organization, The STOP Obesity Alliance, recently identified this wedge as a way to have such hospitals embrace its core convictions, including one principle which questions the role of personal responsibility as a cause and a solution to obesity.
Community Health Needs Assessments. Section 9007 of the Act requires non-profit hospitals, as a condition of maintaining their tax-exempt status, to conduct Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs). These documents, which must be filed with the IRS, will demonstrate the health needs of the hospitals’ local communities and explain how hospitals are meeting those needs. One assessment of CHNAs likened them to banks’ responsibilities under the Community Reinvestment Act, in the sense that the documents might be used as tools by activists to prompt agreements or actions. It’s likely the STOP alliance understood this when it made its “recommendations.”
STOP’s Recommendations. The STOP Obesity Alliance “strongly encourages nonprofit hospitals to overcome and prevent obesity on the following core principles.” On balance, the coalition’s principles are laudable (encourage physical activity, encourage best practices, address and reduce stigma). One recommendation — that CHNAs use a “sustained loss of five to ten percent of current weight” as a barometer to successful weight reduction — may be troublesome for hospitals. If hospitals incorporate such a specific goal into their CHNAs, and their patients don’t achieve such consistent weight loss, that could provide STOP and other advocates with the clear data they need to oppose continued non-profit status at the IRS or with a potent stick to prod hospitals to certain actions.
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Nanny State PING!
gonna love it when the obama voter find out ... LOL ... could be a revolt of the fat or the fat could be thrown around.
What’s the time? obama voters can plead they were prisoners of doubt ... they filled in the blank under ignorance and thought they check none of the above.
EVERYTHING about your life will “have and effect on the healthcare system”,
and therefore subject to regulation.
All your menus are belong to Big Brother.
Who’s gonna whip Barack into shape, so he can benchpress a buck and quarter?
If you don’t want to have to navigate the terrible future of Obamacare, you may want to lose weight and get healthy as you can, because they will deny any of us Conservatives any help for the good of the “children”...
This will blow back on them like all of the other scandals that will drag the Obummer administration to it’s knees.
People don’t realize what they’ve asked for, and I’m going to enjoy watching them get it.
I didn’t read the bill, but I know how communists work. This is coming. Make no mistake, Obamacare is law, and won’t be overturned.
Physicals will be mandatory. Not going will result in increased rates, fines, and eventually exclusion from Obamacare.
Doctor’s recommendations will no longer be suggestions, they will be orders. Failure to comply will result in increased rates, fines, and eventually exclusion.
I can’t wait until those fat b*st*rds living in mom’s basement, blogging for Obama, get the business end of Obamacare. The cries will be like music to my ears.
She’d be a great “run stopper” with that low center of gravity.
“EVERYTHING about your life will “have and effect on the healthcare system”,
Except being a homosexual.
gonna love it when the obama voter find out ... LOL ... could be a revolt of the fat or the fat could be thrown around.
What you mean we can’t buy ding dongs and ho hos with my EBT card anymore....
Everyone who is NOT an elitist will recieve a caloric ration card, much like a debit card, to be presented anywhere u buy food. When that is met for the month, time for some mandatory weight loss. Based upon an adults mandatory 1,800 daily caloric intake, you will be alotted 11,100 calories a month.
I’m 5’10” and 260lbs as of this AM.
Looking at their BMI charts, I’m moribundly obese.
An on again/off again gym-rat I could tie most doctors, not to mention politicians, in knots with my bare hands.
According to the governments numbers, in order to not be considered “dangerously fat”, I need to get down to 183. I could probably lose 20 lbs, but almost 80?
Maybe if they amputate both of my legs...
who’s got a War on Women NOW???
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