I was watching a British documentary about hospitals/ambulances now needing to accommodate more obese people (the link to the video is here and I recommend watching it if you have the time, since it's an hour long).
Many of the paramedics, nurses, and doctors are lovely when they're dealing with the fat patients, but to be honest I have no idea how they do it. These patients eat themselves into a disability, have to be helped with everything, moan and complain constantly and are a drain on health care. I'm probably heartless, but my ideal scenario for health care would be to give fat people one chance to lose weight. If they don't do it, they have to pay for all health-related expenses out of their own pocket.
Anyone have any thoughts about the demand fat people put on hospitals? I've heard plenty of horror stories from nurses and paramedics who have to deal with them and physically carry them around, and I was wondering if anybody had any similar experiences or general thoughts.
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[–] Mike_1990_tx 2 points 13 points 15 points (+15|-2) ago
This is why I absolutely am against socialized, single payer, mandatory health care. Morons get obese, eat tide pods, do "harmless" recreational drugs and then expect those of us with function brains who actually contribute to society to pay for the health care and subsidize their useless fucking "women's studies" or "SJW" related degrees. Fuck you , you piece of trash, roll up your sleeves go to work, lose weight and pay for your own shit
[–] SleepyCicada 3 points 6 points 9 points (+9|-3) ago
That’s Canada for ya. 20K out of my pocket per year gone to the taxman to treat consequences of HAES.
[–] Mike_1990_tx 5 points 3 points 8 points (+8|-5) ago (edited ago)
Ouch. This is why i can't take Euro trash or flannel backs(ha Canadians get it?) seriously when they start with that , muh free healthcare. Nothings free. Someone is paying and it's folks like you and me who actually make a good living that everyone is envious of
[–] Pm_me_ur_genetiks ago
Geez you pay nothing in taxes.
[–] Fatburner4u 2 points 4 points 6 points (+6|-2) ago
I doubt that your blanket statement is really valid. For example, off the top of my head, Japan is a single payer socialized healthcare country, and they are shitlords to the extreme.
If you’re going to do it, you just gotta do it right. If you can’t trust yourself or the people you elected to do it, then find/elect someone who will.
Simply saying that it doesn’t work is a cop-out.
[–] teatime 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Exactly! Japan has implemented single-payer socialized healthcare perfectly. They have strict measurements that people must meet to be considered healthy and there are consequences of being overweight.
[–] Mike_1990_tx 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
And wealthy Japanese people come to the USA for risky procedures