Proposed Bill bans Restaurants from Overweight

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Mississippi lawmakers (both a pub and dem) have proposed a bill that would prohibit restaurants from serving obese people. Although the bill is likely to die upon arrival, this is just another sign of what lawmakers would like to do if given the chance. Although I personally find it offensive to eat in the presence of someone that is as big as a table, it is their right to eat themselves to death if they wish and it is my right to get up and leave the public establishment.

FYI for all of you that are for socailized medicine. Once that passes, it will be no time at all before those persons that are overweight are taxed and therefore subject to additional scrutiny and penalized for the additional health costs they will face over a more healthy person. That is all...
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I am not surprised that this is happening. I am shocked it's in Mississippi. I would have expected California or Oregon or Vermont.
 
liberals/politicians like to talk a lot about preventive care. this is perhaps the scariest part of universal healthcare. this is the place where the mandaters would get happy feet and we would see our freedom flushed down the toilet.

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MS has a huge problem with obesity. Even the lawmakers who proposed this don't expect it to be passed. Its just for the shock value to push the fact that something needs to be done about obesity in MS. It puts it in the mind of the obese that they need to change. That's what this is for.

A tax on the obese if we go to UHC is utter nonsense. Obese people will be better off than they are now. Right now they pay higher premiums than everyone else and, to use general's words, are penalized for the additional health costs they will face. With UHC, everyone's premium will likely be the same. UHC is about equality. The current system is about inequality and limiting access to those in need, including the obese.
 
I wonder what % of restaurants would go out of business in the first year if a bill like this would pass. I'm guessing about 75%.
 
why not prohibit grocery stores from selling sugary foods to those over 250 lbs? btw, what parameters will be used to define obese ? why do people think terrorists are the ones endangering our "freedoms", the enemy is our own politicians and their idiotic lobby groups - insecure voters.
 
How would you like to have the job for Applebee's training all the hostesses how to recognize obese people and be sure to deny service to anyone obese but not to anyone who isn't? "For that height 213 is obese but 212 is ok so you ... " And you're telling this to some nineteen year old girl who ... And everybody you denied service who isn't obese or doesn't think they are ... This is like a lot of things including gun control - you can't figure out how to operationalize it so ...
 
EuroHorn,

I'm training cute nineteen year old hostesses whether they can guess weight or not. No way I'm letting some carnie be my hostess.
 
read the proposed bill and for the life of me cannot figure out what it is set up to accomplish. People need to eat whether fat or skinny. Does not letting fat people eat out somehow force them eat healthy? Maybe if ban the fat people from public and you don't see them, the problem goes away?

As little chance of it actually passing, surely the originators had SOME goal in mind other that getting 15 mins of web fame.
 
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