Life Government will require all Americans by 2014 to have a Obesity Rating - Page 6

teedubya · 07-16-2010, 12:55 PM

I'm Doooooooomed. LOL.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69436

Obesity Rating for Every American Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records

New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records--that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year--must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.

The obesity-rating regulation states that every American's electronic health record must: “Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height and weight.”

The law also requires that these electronic health records be available--with appropriate security measures--on a national exchange.

The new regulations are one of the first steps towards the government’s goal of universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, as outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law. Specifically, the regulations issued on Tuesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, define the "meaningful use" of electronic records. Under the stimulus law, health care providers--including doctors and hospitals--must establish "meaningful use" of EHRs by 2014 in order to qualify for federal subsidies. After that, they will be subjected to penalties in the form of diminished Medicare and Medicaid payments for not establishing "meaningful use" of EHRs.

Section 3001 of the stimulus law says: "The National Coordinator shall, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies (including the National Institute of Standards and Technology), update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (developed as of June 3, 2008) to include specific objectives, milestones, and metrics with respect to the following: (i) The electronic exchange and use of health information and the enterprise integration of such information.‘‘(ii) The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014."

Under this mandate in the stimulus law, Secretary Sebelius issued a regulation--developed by Dr. Blumenthal--that requires that all EHRs keep track of a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI) score. Body Mass Index is a ratio between a person’s weight and height, and is used to determine whether or not someone is overweight or obese. It is the preferred method of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for measuring obesity.

Michelle Obama has made dealing with the problem of childhood obesity the main theme of her term as First Lady.

U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
According to the CDC, “BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.”

A person’s BMI score is used as a tool to screen for obesity or excessive body fat that could lead to other health problems. While it does not actually measure body fat directly, according to CDC, the BMI scores generally correlate with a person’s body fat percentage.

The new regulations also stipulate that the new electronic records be capable of sending public health data to state and federal health agencies such as HHS and CDC. The CDC, which calls American society “obesogenic” – meaning that American society itself promotes obesity – collects BMI scores from state health agencies every year to monitor obesity nationwide.

“Electronically record, retrieve, and transmit syndrome based public health surveillance information to public health agencies,” the regulations read.

With the spread of electronic health records, the CDC apparently will be able to collect such data more efficiently and with greater accuracy because the electronic record keeping systems can send the data automatically, eliminating the need for government – both state and federal – to keep, send, and process physical records.

**Donger** · 07-16-2010, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by teedubya

With the new Health Care reform thing, this shouldn't seem as much of a surprise. This is just the start, IMO.

If you smoke or are fat... you are the new "3/5".

ST TNG reference?

**mlyonsd** · 07-16-2010, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs

People are fat in this country because the food industry dominates advertising and doesn't give a shit about keep people healthy. The only way to combat that is the government. So you either regulate the food industry, which would make everyone bitch and moan and would be wrong anyway, or you precisely target fat Americans with free weight loss, nutrition and exercise programs.

And really really expensive health insurance if they choose not to fit into the government mold for their height and weight.

stevieray · 07-16-2010, 02:52 PM

smokers..check
fat people..check
old people...check

ArrowheadHawk · 07-16-2010, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by teedubya

There will be fewer fat Americans when things have less toxins in the food... and less High Fructose Corn Syrup... and less aspartame... and less shit.

But, the theory behind this is good... but I think the execution of this will be greatly flawed.

What? Actually they should replace corn syrup with aspertame. That would help.

sedated · 07-16-2010, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs

People are fat in this country because the food industry dominates advertising and doesn't give a shit about keep people healthy. The only way to combat that is the government. So you either regulate the food industry, which would make everyone bitch and moan and would be wrong anyway, or you precisely target fat Americans with free weight loss, nutrition and exercise programs.

regulating the food industry "would be wrong"? what about the FDA?

Brock · 07-16-2010, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

What? Actually they should replace corn syrup with aspertame. That would help.

No, it wouldn't.

DJ's left nut · 07-16-2010, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs

LOL

Are you saying America was a better place to live 100 years ago?

I think you are taking this to the extreme. The business world just wants to make money, so they're not going to solve the obesity problem. Expecting people to just magically become more responsible isn't going to happen, nor is the food industry going to change their ways.

The only remaining option is the government do something about it...saying that's a bad thing is just stupid. Where else is a solution going to come from?

People are fat in this country because the food industry dominates advertising and doesn't give a shit about keep people healthy. The only way to combat that is the government. So you either regulate the food industry, which would make everyone bitch and moan and would be wrong anyway, or you precisely target fat Americans with free weight loss, nutrition and exercise programs.

People are fat in this country because of decisions they make.

You act as though the advertisements are pumping fat into their blood. Or that their eyes are being held open and forced to watch said fat pumping ads.

I'm seen as heartless in this discussion when I at least have enough faith in people to believe they're capable of making their own decisions and should thus be bound by them.

But entirely too many people have your attitude - people are helpless and only the government can step in to save them from themselves.

Oh yeah, and to whatever degree the country is better now than it was 100 years ago, that has everything to do with technological innovation and nothing to do with government intervention. The average American has less purchasing power per hour worked than he did 100 years ago and that's because much of that purchasing power is going into propping up a massive federal apparatus that tells us what we can do and when we can do it.

ClevelandBronco · 07-16-2010, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs

...If the average fat American was visited by a representative from a government-sponsored weight loss program...

A government-sponsored weight loss program? Are you out of what little there ever was of your ****ing mind?

Brock · 07-16-2010, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs

People are fat in this country because the food industry dominates advertising and doesn't give a shit about keep people healthy. The only way to combat that is the government. So you either regulate the food industry, which would make everyone bitch and moan and would be wrong anyway, or you precisely target fat Americans with free weight loss, nutrition and exercise programs.

Bullshit. People are fat in this country because they eat too much and they don't exercise. Food industry, advertising, and government inaction have nothing to do with it. Everybody knows they should eat better and they should exercise and they choose not to.

DJ's left nut · 07-16-2010, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

ST TNG reference?

I'm gonna go with an Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution reference.

Black folks = 3/5 of a person.

ArrowheadHawk · 07-16-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Brock

No, it wouldn't.

Sure it would. Zero calories vs. A Lot of calories.

teedubya · 07-16-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

What? Actually they should replace corn syrup with aspertame. That would help.

Considering that aspartame is the devil's semen...

Brock · 07-16-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ArrowheadHawk

Sure it would. Zero calories vs. A Lot of calories.

Read up on it and get back to me when you're a little more educated.

DJ's left nut · 07-16-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

A government-sponsored weight loss program? Are you out of what little there ever was of your ****ing mind?

Perhaps not, but he sure has been indoctrinated well, hasn't he?

Jesus, the Government has wet dreams thinking about the job they've done on this sap.

ArrowheadHawk · 07-16-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by teedubya

Considering that aspartame is the devil's semen...

It helped me lose 50 pounds.

07-16-2010, 12:55 PM
teedubya Most Valuable Poster Join Date: Oct 2003 Casino cash: $8993042	Government will require all Americans by 2014 to have a Obesity Rating I'm Doooooooomed. LOL. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69436 Obesity Rating for Every American Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records--that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year--must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity. The obesity-rating regulation states that every American's electronic health record must: “Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height and weight.” The law also requires that these electronic health records be available--with appropriate security measures--on a national exchange. The new regulations are one of the first steps towards the government’s goal of universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, as outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law. Specifically, the regulations issued on Tuesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, define the "meaningful use" of electronic records. Under the stimulus law, health care providers--including doctors and hospitals--must establish "meaningful use" of EHRs by 2014 in order to qualify for federal subsidies. After that, they will be subjected to penalties in the form of diminished Medicare and Medicaid payments for not establishing "meaningful use" of EHRs. Section 3001 of the stimulus law says: "The National Coordinator shall, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies (including the National Institute of Standards and Technology), update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (developed as of June 3, 2008) to include specific objectives, milestones, and metrics with respect to the following: (i) The electronic exchange and use of health information and the enterprise integration of such information.‘‘(ii) The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014." Under this mandate in the stimulus law, Secretary Sebelius issued a regulation--developed by Dr. Blumenthal--that requires that all EHRs keep track of a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI) score. Body Mass Index is a ratio between a person’s weight and height, and is used to determine whether or not someone is overweight or obese. It is the preferred method of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for measuring obesity. Michelle Obama has made dealing with the problem of childhood obesity the main theme of her term as First Lady. U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com) According to the CDC, “BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.” A person’s BMI score is used as a tool to screen for obesity or excessive body fat that could lead to other health problems. While it does not actually measure body fat directly, according to CDC, the BMI scores generally correlate with a person’s body fat percentage. The new regulations also stipulate that the new electronic records be capable of sending public health data to state and federal health agencies such as HHS and CDC. The CDC, which calls American society “obesogenic” – meaning that American society itself promotes obesity – collects BMI scores from state health agencies every year to monitor obesity nationwide. “Electronically record, retrieve, and transmit syndrome based public health surveillance information to public health agencies,” the regulations read. With the spread of electronic health records, the CDC apparently will be able to collect such data more efficiently and with greater accuracy because the electronic record keeping systems can send the data automatically, eliminating the need for government – both state and federal – to keep, send, and process physical records.
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