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[SoonerJim]

NPR today has a segment on "All Things Considered" discussing an overseas medical study showing overall health savings when you have bad health habits. It's best to die young, which seems counterintuitive, but isn't. The law will increase costs.

 

[billinms]

The bill was killed in committee this morning.

 

[Pure Energy]

From the article:

It's a logical extension, perhaps, of laws that ban bartenders from serving patrons who are already beyond the point of legal intoxication.

I can see it for Casino's too: "Mr. PE, you've lost $4,500 in the past 3 hours...by State law you're not allowed to gamble anymore tonight in our Casino."

Just place a surtax on junk food in the same manner alcohol and tobacco is taxed and call it a day.

 

[RiverCitySaint]

I saw a blurb on CNN about this last night. The take they presented was that the bill's authors know it won't pass (don't intend it to pass?) but are hoping it stimulates awareness and discussion of the high rate of obesity in Mississippi.

The bill is garbage and using this method to shed light on the issue might qualify no better, but ultimately it is walking-dead legislation from inception though its introduction, at least from what I heard reported, is intended to achieve another purpose.

Perhaps so, but it otherwise would make me want to gain a lot of weight that I could lose and file a law suit that I could win ! LOL

 

[llama]

I envision a bunch of fat people hanging outside of McDonald's waiting for a skinny person to come by and buy them a Big Mac.

This is beyond stupid.

Wait a second: I can make a fortune this way. Let's not be so hasty.

 

[primadox]

You mean you are paying the price for it because of smokers? You are paying an equal price for diabetic, heart diseased, obese people. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a hater, but I think the two are equivocal. We are talking about liability here after all.

I can't speak for robsmith32, but the "price" that is important to me re: smoking is not the monetary one from health care costs, etc. (although it is an issue, but a separate one); the true price is my own personal health. Again, the diabetic, heart diseased, obese people aren't going to affect my own personal health directly, but the smoker will. In terms of health insurance/health care costs, then yes, we can lump them all together as something we're "paying" for. But the price I was specifically talking about earlier was my own personal health, and that of my family. With a loved one going through cancer of the esophagus right now, it's a subject that is important to me.

 

[varanook]

the true price is my own personal health

Only if you choose to be around smokers and places where smokers would be allowed to smoke in a private business or home.

Free market would take care of this problem for businesses and the foul smell left in a smokers home sometimes sends them outside.
But you don't HAVE to be around smokers if you don't want to. So the only health effects it would cause you would be self inflicted.
It does not matter if this bill was killed in congress or not, there will be others like it for different things due to the smoker nazis banning smoking through government means rather than individual businesses/people making the choice.

If you are talking about the the health insurance part than there is evidence that it brings up everyone's health insurance (smoking and being overweight) but that is a different thread.

 

[DadsDream]

Mississippi Considers a Bill to Ban Obese People From Restaurants

I guess this was just a matter of time, since the two guys got banned from the buffet for eating too much in Louisiana. Now the craziness is spreading to Mississippi.

Here's to MS State Rep. John Read (R, Gautier, that's down near Pascagoula).

Bill to Ban Serving Obese Sparks Furor
By Nanci Hellmich,
USA Today
Posted: 2008-02-06 10:59:55

(Feb. 6) - Nutrition experts are burning up calories in expressing their outrage over proposed legislation in Mississippi that would prohibit restaurants from serving obese customers.

They say the proposed bill, still in committee, is "ridiculous," "insane" and a wrong-headed approach to solving the national obesity epidemic.

State Rep. John Read, a Republican who is one of the bill's three authors, says he wasn't trying to offend anybody and never even expected the plan to become law.

"I was trying to shed a little light on the No. 1 problem in Mississippi," he says. The state has the highest obesity rate in the USA.

Steve Holland, the Democratic chairman of the House Public Health and Human Services Committee, said in a statement he will "pocket veto" the bill. "It's dead on arrival at my desk."

READ MORE
http://news.aol.com/health/story/_a/bill-to-ban-serving-obese-sparks-furor/20080206091709990001

 

[Thorin]

Where ya been pops?

http://www.saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60622

 

[4saintspirit]

yeah - but the guy that wrote the bill admitted it was not written to be passed but to bring attention to the fact that 30% or so of people in Mississippi are obese -- including him --

 

[Jazzbo]

Where ya been pops?

http://www.saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60622

physician, heal thyself

 

[threexcharm]

Yeah...well the person that wrote the bill never ate at the Chili's in Gulfport, like I did Monday.

If all experiences were like that one, you would not have to worry about anyone eating in restaurants.

Joe

 

[DadsDream]

Where ya been pops?

http://www.saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60622

Mardi Gras break, home with the family and Wifey.