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Just pointing out you completely misread my post.
You said..."COULD of used" as in they had'nt used anything.
Just pointing out you completely misread my post.
47 million people die each year due to the lack of health care?What is one to think when you put something like that into a thread? It only points to the fact that the republican party has no plan, other than let the 47 million that die each year due to the lack of healtcare to continue to die.
47 million people die each year due to the lack of health care?
:rofl
That's ~89 people per minute!:lol: Well,of course...We have tens of thousands just dropping dead in the streets every day because Big Brother isnt in charge of health care.
Sure I have a point, the subject of the thread is "Dems taunt GOP: Where's your health care plan?"and you post a link to “Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adults:United States, 2003-2004".
What is one to think when you put something like that into a thread? It only points to the fact that the republican party has no plan, other than let the 47 million that die each year due to the lack of healtcare to continue to die.
with this attude it knda looks like the Senator from the state of Florida hit the nail on the head when he said the Republican Healthcare Plan is “Die Quickly”.
Last I read this wasn't welfare. Citizens had to actually pay into the program. Do you have a link that suggests otherwise?
Sure I have a point, the subject of the thread is "Dems taunt GOP: Where's your health care plan?"and you post a link to “Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adults:United States, 2003-2004".
What is one to think when you put something like that into a thread?
It only points to the fact that the republican party has no plan...
...other than let the 47 million that die each year due to the lack of healtcare to continue to die.
...with this attude it knda looks like the Senator from the state of Florida hit the nail on the head when he said the Republican Healthcare Plan is “Die Quickly”.
That the easiest solution to our health care problems is a simple change in the average American diet and lifestyle. I thought that was pretty obvious.
Why couldn't they just list the problems with our health care system and address each one individually?
If you're running around giving free health care to all the illegal immigrants things can't be that dire! You can't have both social services AND free and open immigration.
Big free democratic countries should never attempt something so big government. It could go wrong and ruin us.
Baby steps. Baby steps.
47 million people die each year due to the lack of health care?
:rofl
Any suggestions how to do that?
It's on the individual to make that choice for themself. If they choose not to change their lifestyle then they'll probably die or become ill. Not my problem.
quote Ethereal
That the easiest solution to our health care problems is a simple change in the average American diet and lifestyle. I thought that was pretty obvious.
Good thing I'm not a Republican.
Are you trying to claim that 47 million Americans die each year because they lack access to health care?
Obesity-related health complications are, in the vast majority of cases, entirely preventable. I have little sympathy for people who willingly and knowingly engage in unhealthy lifestyles; especially when their lifestyle places an unnecessary burden on an already strained health care system.
But since we are talking about changing society as a whole, any suggestions there?
Gasp…you advocating the government control of our food supply? Government telling us what to eat? :shock:
Yet you seem to agree with everything that they advocate…amazing.
No that was a f*** ** on my part the correct number is 45 thousand.:3oops:
So in your opinion how many of the 45 thousand deaths are attributed to being overweight, also would we use the “BMI index” when considering someone overweight?
Which begs another question, could/should the insurance companies refuse (under preexisting conditions) you if you didn’t fit into their “BMI index”?
A disclaimer here, I might be considered obese according to the “BMI index” in spite of the fact that I have less bodyfat than the normal…ahem, sixty plus year old truck driver.
Yea your right Gooby, I missed that one by about three zeros +. :2wave:
<Research released this week in the American Journal of Public Health estimates that 45,000 deaths per year in the United States are associated with the lack of health insurance. If a person is uninsured, "it means you're at mortal risk," said one of the authors, Dr. David Himmelstein, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.>
45,000 American deaths associated with lack of insurance - CNN.com
Yea your right Gooby, I missed that one by about three zeros +. :2wave:
<Research released this week in the American Journal of Public Health estimates that 45,000 deaths per year in the United States are associated with the lack of health insurance. If a person is uninsured, "it means you're at mortal risk," said one of the authors, Dr. David Himmelstein, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.>
45,000 American deaths associated with lack of insurance - CNN.com
QUOTE=Ethereal
I guess you were so used to presenting that false figure of "47 million Americans uninsured" that it just slipped out on accident.
If 66% of a population are overweight / obese, and that same population has forty-five thousand deaths attributable to lack of insurance, you could reasonable infer than 29,700 of the people who died were overweight or obese.