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 4 points -1 points 3 points (+3|-4) ago (edited ago)
And it's good that you work, pay your taxes and have a "forward payment" but that's only ideal of everyone pulls their weight(no pun intended) you and I pay taxes, and you're going to tell me you're ok with the worthless who're pumping out babies, the junkie ODing for the 4th time, and of course as is the theme, obese "disabled" individuals taking our hard earned money? That doesn't bother you at all? You're ok paying for others piss poor life choices. And remember there's a reason why people from countries with "free" health care who can afford it always go to the US for things. Because our healthcare is second to none. Not my fault you can't understand that.