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by Jeff Davis

Big Brother is on the way and he’s bringing the Fat Police with him. CNS News reports: “New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic [so they can be hacked] health records 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.”

You don’t suppose every unapproved activity from being a little overweight, to having an occasional beer, to eating red meat to eating junk foods will be used to increase the cost of your medical insurance do you?

Obamacare isn’t “free” –at least not for White people. We will soon be forced to buy health insurance, and we’ll be forced to pay for “free” health insurance for all the needy Third World people, who can’t afford it or who are too lazy to work.

Now that the government is getting involved, they will want to start demanding that we supply them with any information they want, including how much each of us weighs and any other personal medical information. Who knows where that information will wind up? I’m sure there will be people in government willing to sell that information to credit card companies, direct marketing concerns and maybe even the tabloids.

CNS goes on: “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.”

So if a private doctor (if there are such things in the future) doesn’t give up his patients’ records, he’ll lose his government check.

Do I really need to outline the 1001 potentials for abuse here? Do you really want everyone from the police to telemarketers to extortionists looking at your medical records? Do you want hackers stealing your records and posting all your diseases, loathsome or otherwise to a web site?

But there are even deeper implications here. In the liberal world, the “campaign against obesity” as defined by Michelle Obama and like-minded liberals is in fact part of a decades-long vendetta against the fast food industry and McDonalds restaurants in particular.

Americans should be free to eat wherever they want. We don’t need a nanny-state telling us all to eat nothing but salads and tofu. Fast food chains are an example of a highly successful capitalist enterprise, and the liberal Democrats have long had their eyes on outfits like McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut as sources of tax revenue to fund their big Socialist spending projects. There may soon be a fast food tax to make up for all the alleged health problems that come from people eating fast food. Never mind the fact that a person who eats McDonald’s food in moderation and gets plenty of exercise could be just as fit as anyone else.

Look for the “anti-obesity” campaign to take on the elements of extortion and shakedown. The Democrats funded their spending for years through extorting the tobacco industry with crushing taxes, lawsuits and outright shakedowns. Now they’re going to shake down Ronald McDonald and the Taco Bell chihuahua.