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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[–] 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.
[–] Plavonica 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Besides the obvious?
[–] Mike_1990_tx 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
And wealthy Japanese people come to the USA for risky procedures