Do really overweight people pay for their own medical needs and handicaps?

[MetalMat]

I was watching an MSNBC special on Houston, Texas being the fattest city and they had a really fat woman on the show that weighed like 675lbs. Besides her being so nasty looking, she was getting a little cocky about how if people dont like it they should change there attitude. She could not walk around and needed a wheelchair, plus she had to have medicine and oxygen at night and needed an assistant to get her clothes on and off and do stuff around the house.

What I am wondering is if she pays for this stuff herself? If she does, then how in the world is she getting any money? It did not mention anything about her having a job......

 

[Zysoclaplem]

She is more than likely considered disabled, so tax payers are probably taking care of it.

 

"their"

Her financial situation could be any number of things. Disability, medicare, medicade, retirement, pension, inheritance and so on and so forth. Each sitaution has to be examined case by case.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

you and me, buddy

paying for other peoples problems

 

[FlyLice]

The state should starve her until she is less than 200lbs.

 

[Conky]

I doubt she is happy even if the government pays for all her care.

 

[MetalMat]

Originally posted by: FlyLice
The state should starve her until she is less than 200lbs.

I agree, just throw her in a room for a while and feed her a normal diet. She can come out when she is around 200lbs.

 

[Baked]

She should get the Schiavo treatment.

 

[FlyLice]

I once saw this fat lady on Oprah. She buy a 20 pc meal from KFC and take off the skin. And then she's make a sandwich out of the skin and eat it with ketchup. I was a kid back then so she looked like an elephant. Must have been like 400 lbs.

 

[MetalMat]

Originally posted by: FlyLice
I once saw this fat lady on Oprah. She buy a 20 pc meal from KFC and take off the skin. And then she's make a sandwich out of the skin and eat it with ketchup. I was a kid back then so she looked like an elephant. Must have been like 400 lbs.

The fat lady was really nasty on the show I watched sunday. They showed her getting into bed, and for like 30 seconds you could see the skin under her moo-moo I got sick just seeing it for a split second.

 

[Queasy]

I look at all the fat kids running...correction, waddling around nowadays and wonder how many of them I'm going to be paying for.

 

[91TTZ]

I think that taxpayers should not be required to pay for problems that 1) people bring on themselves and 2) are reversible if they'd just put the effort into changing it.

Being obese like that should be considered a lifestyle choice and not a health problem. It's their fault, make them pay for their own whale food.

 

[Fausto]

"It's my metabolism."

"Healthy food is too expensive."

"I don't have time to exercise."



Just wanted to get those out of the way.

 

[MetalMat]

Originally posted by: Fausto
"It's my metabolism."

"Healthy food is too expensive."

"I don't have time to exercise."



Just wanted to get those out of the way.

Just thinking about that fat lady made me loose my appetite for lunch She was so nasty.....

 

[dquan97]

There goes my appetite

 

[StageLeft]

Fat people :thumbsdown:

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Fausto
"It's my metabolism."

"Healthy food is too expensive."

"I don't have time to exercise."



Just wanted to get those out of the way.

Don't forget the corrolary to #1 - "It's my Thyroid"

"I'm not fat, I'm big boned..."

"Diets don't work on me"

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Fausto
"It's my metabolism."

"Healthy food is too expensive."

"I don't have time to exercise."



Just wanted to get those out of the way.

" I choose to look this way"

Yeah, some people don't have it easy, and maybe there's .001% of the population who can't help it, but 100% of the fatasses out there use that as their excuse. I'm not naturally in shape so I have to exercize constantly. There's no excuse for being 400 lbs.

 

[daveymark]

has a fattie posted in this thread yet?

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Fausto
"It's my metabolism."

"Healthy food is too expensive."

"I don't have time to exercise."



Just wanted to get those out of the way.

Healthy food is too expensive though. I buy it anyway, but its annoying that a loaf of whole wheat bread costs the same as 3 bags of potato chips.

 

[Ausm]

675?!?! To be that huge she must have never worked a day in her life and must have been on welfare for years.

Ausm

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Fausto
"It's my metabolism."

"Healthy food is too expensive."

"I don't have time to exercise."



Just wanted to get those out of the way.

Healthy food is too expensive though. I buy it anyway, but its annoying that a loaf of whole wheat bread costs the same as 3 bags of potato chips.

It really isn't, I'm sorry. It just takes some time to actually prepare a meal from scratch.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Fausto
"It's my metabolism."

"Healthy food is too expensive."

"I don't have time to exercise."



Just wanted to get those out of the way.

Healthy food is too expensive though. I buy it anyway, but its annoying that a loaf of whole wheat bread costs the same as 3 bags of potato chips.

A FOUR POUND bag of field greens from sams club is $4.00. A bottle of light italian dressing is $1.90. Croutons are $1.00 a bag. That's easily 5 meals for under $1.50 a meal.

Fresh veggies are pretty cheap. Especially if you grow them yourself. Skinless Chicken breast are pretty cheap - about $7 for 4 pounds of them.

Apples and bananas are under a dollar a pound.

Tuna is about the same price pound per pound as ground beef.

Pound for pound, "healthy" stuff IS cheaper.

It just doesn't taste like fat.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Fausto
"It's my metabolism."

This is true because extremely Obese people do not excersize.

"Healthy food is too expensive."

If you buy the already prepared stuff it is quite expensive.

"I don't have time to exercise."

This is the number one reason why fat people are fat!




Just wanted to get those out of the way.

Ausm

 

[StageLeft]

I think if I didn't care about health I could eat crap for less than good food, but I'll tell you, eating my own food at home, that's healthy, is a lot cheaper than going out to restaurants and eating the restaurant food. Eating properly is within the financial grasp of most of the population.