"More than one-fourth of all adults in the U.S. are obese. About one in five smoke. Fewer than half get the recommended amount of physical activity.The only way to "promote wellness" is to discourage unwellness, i.e., make people pay for their bad choices.
Despite Americans' poor lifestyle choices and the chronic problems they spawn, the health-care reform proposals being considered in Congress contain relatively little to promote wellness."
Instead, this is the crap we get:
"Other wellness provisions in the Senate and House bills would:Wellness programs do not, cannot and will never work; more "green spaces" to "support physical activity" is stupid since if people were committed to a proper weight they could do it anywhere, as many of us already do without infrastructural changes, "physical activity" for weight control is inefficient and, oh yeah, now the rest of us will have to subsidize bicycle purchases for the fat, Calorie info doesn't make an iota of difference, etc.
• Approve money for wellness promotion and prevention ($80 billion over 10 years under the Senate bill, and $15.2 billion over five years under the House bill).
• Award grants to communities to pay for projects like bike paths that support physical activity, and for programs that promote healthy food at restaurants and schools and help people quit smoking.
• Require restaurants to include more information about calories in menu items and suggested daily calorie intake.
• Help companies create wellness programs.
• Establish demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of health promotion programs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients."
This is more of the same BS that has already been proven to fail.
To believe that this stuff can ever work is proof positive of brain death.
Vote the morons out of office.
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