Recently, H.R.5209 The Healthy Communities through Helping to Offer Incentives and Choices to Everyone in Society Act of 2010, was introduced and referred to committee.
It seems, a government short on money must be long on titles for legislation they hope to pass. This bill would put the state and federal government in charge of how skinny or fat American children are.
A state receiving federal grants provided for in the bill would be required to annually track the Body Mass Index of all children ages 2 through 18. The grant would mandate that all health care providers in the state determine the Body Mass Index of all their patients in the 2-to-18-age bracket.
The care provider would then report that information to the state government. The state government, in turn, would be required to report the information to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for analysis.
Excuse me? What about the oath our legislators swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic? Are we now to believe that constitutionally fat has become an enemy of the state?
Conspicuously absent in the legislation, is what the government plans to do with children if they are found to be overweight. Deny them future health care? Take them from their parents and deliver them to FEMA controlled fat farms where they may be starved? Remember the movie, “They shoot horses don’t they?”
Perhaps you might be wondering, couldn’t the government do more? Of course they can. In researching this bill I found over thirty such different pieces of legislation winding their way through the legislative process. Doubt me? Please click here.
It will never cease to amaze how our elected officials spend money on such useless legislation. Perhaps legislation will be passed to begin cutting the weight of a bloated federal government. It’s too bad it’s not their money
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