Federal Fat Police: Bill would mandate tracking BMI of all children

[The Village Idiot]

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/65781



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(CNSNews.com)  - A bill introduced this month in Congress would put the federal and state governments in the business of tracking how fat, or skinny, American children are.

The bill would require states that receive federal dollars for health programs to track the Body Mass Index of children ages 2 through 18 annually through records collected by their health care providers. The legislation also requires the states to pass that data on to the Department of Health and Human Services for analysis.
 
The Healthy Choices Act--introduced by Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee--establishes and funds a wide range of programs and regulations aimed at reducing obesity rates by such means as putting nutritional labels on the front of food products, subsidizing businesses that provide fresh fruits and vegetables, and collecting BMI measurements of patients and counseling those that are overweight or obese.
 
Section 101 of the bill amends the Public Health Services Act by adding BMI as a measurement that health care professionals must assess annually on all patients and specifically for all children who are in federally funded health programs such as SCHIP


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[jinxmchue]

My kids are far from overweight, but the feds can take a flying leap if they think they'll get any such information from them.

[thundley4]

Once 0BamaCare gets rolling, they will want to keep track of the BMI of all of us.

[DefiantSix]

Once 0BamaCare gets rolling, they will want to keep track of the BMI of all of us.

Once The Reichsmessiah_{(piss be upon him)} gets his mitts on the food production industries the way he got his mitts on the auto industry, the banking industry, the insurance industry and the health care industry, there will be no need to track BMIs on everyone.  We'll all be as malnurished as the Norks.

[thundley4]

Once The Reichsmessiah_{(piss be upon him)} gets his mitts on the food production industries the way he got his mitts on the auto industry, the banking industry, the insurance industry and the health care industry, there will be no need to track BMIs on everyone.  We'll all be as malnurished as the Norks.

Rice and beans with rationing of meat and dairy products.

[JohnnyReb]

Rice and beans with rationing of meat and dairy products.

Cut out foodstamps and I bet the BMI on a lot of people would drop....cut out welfare, section 8 housing and easy SS disability and I bet obesity would all but be eliminated.

[The Village Idiot]

Cut out foodstamps and I bet the BMI on a lot of people would drop....cut out welfare, section 8 housing and easy SS disability and I bet obesity would all but be eliminated.

They will end those programs once they have total control. Then its meager rations for everyone but the elite.

[DefiantSix]

Cut out foodstamps and I bet the BMI on a lot of people would drop....cut out welfare, section 8 housing and easy SS disability and I bet obesity would all but be eliminated.

If only because the obese, lazy welfare zombies would riot in the streets, and we'd have to protect lives by ventilating 'em.