Current Health Insurance is a Biblical Harlot riding on Americans.
They (Harlot and Republicans) descriminate sick , poor and old. And
you have to buy Afflac too!! But when you get sick They-Harlot
supported by Republicans cancel Insurance and Americans 1.6 Million
per year getting bankropted!.
So now is a time for Insurance for all Americans! let us stop
monopoly of Harlot and Rpublicans support of it.

God bless Obama and all Americans!!!!!!

Republicans are more conservative until conception, but after that
Democrats getting all responsibilities for the rest of the life of
new conception (person), so in conclusion -in Gods eye Democrats are
far more conservative than Harlot-Republicans!!

Preachers confuse Americans and deliver them to Republicans in the
form of votes, and they get kick-back in the form of "Base Faith
Initiative" and this is their Conservatism!!!!

for us working Americans Republicans deliver "radioactive shafts" -
mortgages, credit cards and Harlot Insurance.

If everyone got out and walked for a couple of hours a day and just cut back on some of the fats, we'd all be in better shape.

Stay out of my stomach. It is nobody's business what I eat or where I eat. Health care reform is just another means to control every facet of our lives.

Just about every fast food joint out there offers a salad of some sort that they can serve up just as quickly as the burgers and fries. Just about everybody knows that, given a choice between a burger and a salad, you're better off from a health standpoint with the salad.

Yet many of them choose the burger and fries despite knowing all that.

The proposed "public options" in healthcare are going to have to continue to deal with the ill advised choices people make in life and the costs associated with them. The only way around that would be to mandate healthy living and enforce such a mandate.

No doubt there are those who actually think that's not only possible, but the right way to go. Those folks also believe it when they're told that a public option would be self-supporting and that it won't increase the deficit. You can't fault their good intentions. But, goddamn, are they ever naive.

No wonder I have taken to eating out less. And at home, if I don't feel like cooking, Lean Cuisine is my feast. We don't move around like the old days when women had babies and went out to plow on the same day. And I am very thankful for that! Good article.

Reform the food system! Yes, brought to you by those progressive leftists that will tell you what to eat, where to eat and how much it will cost you. After all Life expectency may be 88 if it wasn't for that Big Mac. They are going after them the same way they went after tobacco. Will you do gooders get a life of your own?

Oh, brother! I can't even believe the extent these liberals will go. You never stop, do you? You never quit. You just keep pushing it long after you've run past the end zone. Stop already! If you don't like America then move. There's plenty of countries that might be more agreeable. Stop trying to control every facet of everybody's lives, for Pete's sake!

No mention whatsoever of fatal and non-fatal sexually transmitted diseases, some requiring extremely expensive treatments. I haven't seen any progressives lecture homosexuals and prostitutes, or suggest rationed care for people dying of AIDS, yet they complain about overweight people. What about extreme sports? Will they be prohibited? No more fast food establishments that employ millions of people but let's go hang-gliding and bungee-jumping. What about street gang warfare bloodying up our trauma units with knife and gunshot wounds? How about drug and alcohol abuse? Will there be government mandates on how many beers we can have at a baseball game?

Tell you what, Ms. Battaile, let's try to curb waste, fraud and corruption BEFORE we go after aunt Sally for wolfing down a few too many fries, shall we? And let's start with ACORN, the SEIU, Pork Spending, Medicare Fraud, Welfare Fraud, Housing Fraud, TORT Reform, and so on and so on....

As another member stated so eloquently....stay the hell out of my stomach!

If conservatives want to stuff themselves with fast food and die an early death I say let 'em! That'll show Obama and all the other lefties. Oh yeah, please smoke more too.

Obama is a liar and an America hating communist who could care less about our well being. Check this story and quotes from Obama out. This is very telling as to what Obama's true mindset is towards Americans and how he could care less about our well being.

Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon
Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require
veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540
million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries
to military personnel received during their tours on active duty. The
President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the
opposition to his proposal.

"Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained. "Nobody
made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the
risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It
doesn't compute.." "I thought these were people who were proud to
sacrifice for their country, "Obama continued. "I wasn't asking for
blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in
its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to
try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the
selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."

BUT OBAMA PLANS ON GIVING ILLEGALS FREE HEALTH CARE, WHILE ALSO ALLOWING DEGENERATE MINORITIES WHO ARE TOO LAZY TO FINISH SCHOOL OR GET A JOB AND WHO DON'T PAY TAXES HAVE FREE HEALTH CARE AS WELL. AND HE PLANS ON MAKING THE REST OF US WHO DO WORK HARD AND SACRIFICE OUR LIVES FOR THIS COUNTRY PAY THESE ILLEGALS WAY.

This is an excellent and informative article. I had not even thought about the problems of eating fast foods and the toll it will have on our health system, and specically ourselves. If we are going to have any kind of health reform, this must be taken seriously for preventive measures

Should the Justice Department Investigate ACORN?

Vote here:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/10/decide-acorn-justice-investigate/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.192915:b27635644:z0

Yep fast food is definitely not good for ya thats for sure,on a lighter notte though did you know there was an eagle 500 years ago that wieghed in at 40 plus pounds?Called the Haast Eagle it has been surmized that it more than likely ate not only non flying animales but most likely also the rather unlucky human as well

Right on, Janet.

People trying to quote numbers to suggest that our health care system is the worst in the world are teaching us to lie with politically-motivated statistics. Our Cancer survival rates, heart attack survival rates, and stroke rehabilitation rates are by far the best in the world. That is what a health care system does.

A health care system does not choose whether or not its population chooses to smoke or eat a Big Mac and Supersized fries along with a Supersized Dr Pepper.

I will argue that the American diet has a lot to do with our American lifespan being lower than expected, given the quality of our healthcare system.

I feel strongly that we are shooting ourselves in the foot, trying to rebuild our healthcare system simply because it is too expensive when there are cheaper ways to do it that will not risk the quality we have developed.

It seems to me that the American people are choosing to risk drastic decreases in the quality and innovation of their healthcare system to preserve their double bacon cheeseburgers. I think that's a risky proposition.

In the upcoming 2010 and 2012 elections, we need to make our Federal Government understand that we will elect those people who seem most willing to throw their special interest groups under the bus, and who will truly work for the good of the majority. Surely, whatever party you embrace, or if you are independent, you understand that the person who gives you your paycheck is the one that gets to call the shots. WE PAY THESE PEOPLE IN WASH., DC to do what is best for the people, not what is best for their re-election prospects or best for increasing their own net worth. Vote them out America, if they are not willing to do their jobs with integrity.

People, do you want government telling you what to eat, what job you can have, how much you can make at that job, what you should wear, what college you should attend and what profession you should aspire to? That is what is coming. Obama says EVERYONE will be given the funds to attend college. However, what he does not tell you is, you will get full funding if you earn your degree in that field the government believes we need more people, you will get 80% funding if you choose the second most needy field, you will get 50% for the 3rd choice, etc.,etc. In this way, they will direct you toward what they think necessary. If you go to your doctor, do you want the doctor to tell you that you need to lose 15 pounds before you can be treated for your malady? Do you want to take your elderly parent, or grandparent, in to be put in line for a liver transplant, and find out they will be put near the bottom of the list because of their age? We all want the possibility of making our lives better, but this government agenda will turn us into a bunch of robots who will be directed by the wealthy and powerful elitist few, who believe they deserve the best, while we deserve what they think is good enough. DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA.

It is not just fast food that is causing the obesity epidemic and the resulting high cost of health care insurance. The US government's food pyramid which comes from the US Department of Agriculture and the giant food industry is also a sure path to gaining an unhealthy amount of weight. The ignorance about nutrition on the part of the medical establishment borders on absurdity.

The only healthy diet I have seen that is guaranteed to help you attain your ideal weight without ever being hungry is the "no sugar no flour" diet that consists of vegetables, fruits, chicken, fish, eggs, nuts, low fat dairy, and some whole grains like brown rice and quinoa. How you eat is of course a personal choice for each person to make. But at least the government and the food industry should not mislead the people.

NO ONE is saying preserve the status quo. NO ONE! We are saying we want TORT REFORM, we want INTERSTATE ACCESS to health insurance, we want SOME REGULATION and STRICT OVERSIGHT of insurance company tactics, we want them to DETECT, INVESTIGATE, and ELIMINATE the fraud, corruption, and inefficiencies in the current social programs of SS, Medicare, Medicaid, VA Services, and all social programs and agencies currently operating. We want Congress and the President to THROW THEIR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS UNDER THE BUS, and actually do something for the American citizens, for a CHANGE WE CAN SUPPORT. Stop protecting those big supporters of your re-election, who promise you the means to increase YOUR OWN wealth and power. Show some integrity in doing the job the people have elected you to do.

I have a scenario for you: A patient comes into his doctor's office in early stages of type II diabetes...the doctor hands him a diet sheet and tells him to follow it if he wants to live and that he must do 1/2 have hour of aerobic exercise daily. A very cheap prescription that will take care of the diabetes and many other associative conditions. But...what happens is the doctor will prescribe drugs; the patient will continue his habits and will deteriorate; more drugs will be prescribed, same habits, patient will continue to deteriorate, etc, etc.....which is more costly? which is more effective? A hard line stance regarding individuals taking responsibility for their condition and changing their lifestyle will save countless millions in healthcare costs and will save many many people. But, will this happen? People want the freedom to eat and live as they want and will take expensive drugs thinking this will save them......wrong!!!!