We were warned.
The liberal media is already pushing a plan to let “health sinners” – like fat people and smokers – die without health care treatments.

Maybe they’ll make them secret death panels like in Great Britain where a national audit found that half of dying patients placed on the controversial “Liverpool Care Pathway” are never told that life-saving treatment has been withdrawn. Each year 57,000 patients die without being told life-saving treatments have been stopped.

The AP reported:

Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die?

Annual health care costs are roughly $96 billion for smokers and $147 billion for the obese, the government says. These costs accompany sometimes heroic attempts to prolong lives, including surgery, chemotherapy and other measures.

But despite these rescue attempts, smokers tend to die 10 years earlier on average, and the obese die five to 12 years prematurely, according to various researchers’ estimates.

And attempts to curb smoking and unhealthy eating frequently lead to backlash: Witness the current legal tussle over New York City’s first-of-its-kind limits on the size of sugary beverages and the vicious fight last year in California over a ballot proposal to add a $1-per-pack cigarette tax, which was ultimately defeated.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/...le-and-smokers/

The fact of life, no one gets out alive.

Does that mean that smoker, Barack Obama is considered a "health sinner" and will be allowed to die without health care?

Let's be consistent here, people.....

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Does that mean that smoker, Barack Obama is considered a "health sinner" and will be allowed to die without health care?

Let's be consistent here, people.....

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Annual health care costs are roughly $96 billion for smokers and $147 billion for the obese, the government says.

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Just an aside. These asinine "figures" always deserve an eyeroll. There is absolutely zero reason to believe any figures like this. They are always just guesstimates or SWAGs (Scientific Wild Ass Guess) that are molded and shaped to anchor a specific agenda. They have no idea whether those two figures should be $9.6 billion and $14.7 billion, or $153 billion and $319 billion. No idea whatsoever. Just look at the bang up job the BLS (Bureau of Lies and Statistics) does each month with "unemployment" data.

One other that I've noticed, in the past (say a decade or so ago), any numbers like this would have some reference to the source (and sometimes derivation basis) of numbers thrown out like that. Now, more often than not they are just cited with the "the government says" descriptor. That's because what "the government says" is good enough for 95+% of the population of sheeple!

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The last I heard he chews nicotine gum instead of smoking. He's still addicted.

Is the sin addiction? No. Addiction to marijuana is acceptable in our society. The sin is the cost to the State.

When are those pushing for Death Panels going to go after those people who smoke marijuana in Colorado?

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And, since it is the gubmit that defines "obese" this could affect a whole lot of people.

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And, since it is the gubmit that defines "obese" this could affect a whole lot of people.

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On Friday, Rush Limbaugh announce starting in 2014 there is a $5,000 plus PENALTY on top of the health insurance premium under Obamacare for SMOKERS !!

LET IT BE KNOWN, that cigarette smokers support a major health insurance program for children with the taxes they pay on every pack purchaed. Under the POS, the cost of cigarettes DOUBLED in March 2009 to support the program.

As far as I am concerned, Obama can shove his Obamacare ............where the sun don't shine !!