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To: austinite
Gastric bypass surgery seven years ago helped her shed some weight, but she's dropped to 315 pounds mostly through better eating and exercise.

A union-commissioned survey of more than 900 nurses and X-ray technicians found the majority have chronic pain or have suffered injuries from lifting and moving patients.

Frankly, I'm not interested in subsidizing special treatment for huge numbers of the morbidly obese. Neither do I wish the taxpayer to make massive workman's comp payouts for the hospital staff who care for them.

10 posted on 03/31/2006 2:20:05 PM PST by newsworthy (Culture is the engine of history.)
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To: newsworthy
Frankly, I'm not interested in subsidizing special treatment for huge numbers of the morbidly obese.

Almost everybody costs the system in the last years of their lives, I remember reading that five out of every six dollars spent on medical care in this country are during the last six months of life. In the case of the morbidly obese, they are generally not drawing down ten or fifteen years worth of Social Security payments on the way out, in addition.

The advances in gastric bypass surgery should start to, pardon the expression, "thin" out their numbers. But, they're all going to die someday, and are pretty much guaranteed to sap the healthcare system at that time, like almost everybody else.

13 posted on 03/31/2006 2:30:14 PM PST by hunter112 (Total victory at home and in the Middle East!)
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To: newsworthy

Ain't that the truth? The costs on all sides are huge...almost as huge as these patients. I can't help but wonder at what point you say, gee, I haven't seen my feet in 5 years....wonder if I should drop a few pounds?


15 posted on 03/31/2006 2:32:48 PM PST by trimom
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