Why not this? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the government is not a profit-motive-driven organization, for one. Again this comes down to a matter of bureaucracy. People whine incessantly about how complicated and overburdened bureaucracy can get, but then they want MORE bureaucracy for anything that gets put in place that they see as spending their tax money on those who are "unworthy" of the welfare payments they get. The reason why they don't is because the difficulty that would have to go into discerning different "levels," so to speak, of those who are willfully self-destructing themselves through excess. I mean, really, how do you really gauge just how much someone is smoking daily, or how much they are consuming in food, and whether or not their weight is a biological problem? More to the point is, how do you gauge that efficiently and without having to send someone to see a doctor who would have to be paid by the government to check this sort of thing? Your average doctor visit costs like $200 before most co-pays, which is MORE money that's going to come out of the taxpayer's pocket, while increasing workloads on doctors who, by the way, will also need to be certified by the government for this sort of thing which costs even MORE money, plus you'd have to pay the government employees who would be needed to process and file the paperwork, which would cost more for the buildings that would have to be built or rented and staffed for them...
Starting to see the problem, here? Again, were this truly such a problem that doing all of that WOULD save money, I think the government actually would do this. Why? Because each bureau has to fight for their resources during every budgetary allocation. They start showing they're hemorrhaging money, they DO actually start getting cut until they fix the problems.
Now, you never go to the doctors, and that's good for you, but just how old are you, exactly? And what do you think working out and counting your calories will mean if you get, say, lupus? Or how about leukemia? What about cancer, or a stroke, or a pulmonary embolism, or a tapeworm, or a heart attack, or a disease of the digestive tract? Or what if one of those people who can't afford health care and is grossly impoverished and unable to eat a healthy, balanced diet that your privileged white ass can clearly afford consistently gets tuberculosis due to such conditions because whiners like you refused to give them any assistance because of a few hyper-smokers and fat-asses, and they happen to cough as you're running by them and you get TB, too? What if you're running and you aren't paying attention and you get hit by a car?
If everyone thought like you, we'd have a lot of morons thinking that running around and counting their calories meant that we can all avoid disease and injury because we'd all have a lot of morons thinking that everyone's immune systems, anatomy, biology, metabolisms, and genetic predispositions are all perfectly equal and that circumstances have nothing to do with the REAL reasons people go to the hospital, which are typically because diseases that can't just be dealt with by our immune systems tend to happen to people by the hundreds of millions in this country, along with the various other failings caused by the imperfection of the human anatomy that lead to debilitation that, untreated, can cause extensive, permanent damage, or death.
You think that because running around a lot and wasting your time obsessing about your caloric intake, you're not getting the diseases and maladies that people actually do go to the hospitals for? Correlation != causation, ever heard that before? It fits very well: Your running and counting will not stop nor treat any of the maladies I listed above should they come to pass. The most you are mitigating the risk of is heart attack and heart disease. Congratulations! Now see if you can outrun cancer.
Healthcare would cost a fraction of what it does now... *chuckles and shakes his head* Yeah. YOU have the magical cure-all to our society's health problems, and that cure-all is running and counting calories. Please. Get off your pedestal. The reason people don't give a fuck about how you think is because people like you are idiots. Simple solutions to insanely complex problems are not solutions. You speak like someone who spends their entire time running and obsessing over their calories as opposed to studying how the world works and what lands individuals into certain circumstances of their existences. In other words, if I want opinions on how to run a marathon, I'll come to you. If I want information on how to deal with the rising costs of medical care and coverage and health issues in this country, I'll speak to one of the rest of these guys in this thread.
Starting to see the problem, here? Again, were this truly such a problem that doing all of that WOULD save money, I think the government actually would do this. Why? Because each bureau has to fight for their resources during every budgetary allocation. They start showing they're hemorrhaging money, they DO actually start getting cut until they fix the problems.
Now, you never go to the doctors, and that's good for you, but just how old are you, exactly? And what do you think working out and counting your calories will mean if you get, say, lupus? Or how about leukemia? What about cancer, or a stroke, or a pulmonary embolism, or a tapeworm, or a heart attack, or a disease of the digestive tract? Or what if one of those people who can't afford health care and is grossly impoverished and unable to eat a healthy, balanced diet that your privileged white ass can clearly afford consistently gets tuberculosis due to such conditions because whiners like you refused to give them any assistance because of a few hyper-smokers and fat-asses, and they happen to cough as you're running by them and you get TB, too? What if you're running and you aren't paying attention and you get hit by a car?
If everyone thought like you, we'd have a lot of morons thinking that running around and counting their calories meant that we can all avoid disease and injury because we'd all have a lot of morons thinking that everyone's immune systems, anatomy, biology, metabolisms, and genetic predispositions are all perfectly equal and that circumstances have nothing to do with the REAL reasons people go to the hospital, which are typically because diseases that can't just be dealt with by our immune systems tend to happen to people by the hundreds of millions in this country, along with the various other failings caused by the imperfection of the human anatomy that lead to debilitation that, untreated, can cause extensive, permanent damage, or death.
You think that because running around a lot and wasting your time obsessing about your caloric intake, you're not getting the diseases and maladies that people actually do go to the hospitals for? Correlation != causation, ever heard that before? It fits very well: Your running and counting will not stop nor treat any of the maladies I listed above should they come to pass. The most you are mitigating the risk of is heart attack and heart disease. Congratulations! Now see if you can outrun cancer.
Healthcare would cost a fraction of what it does now... *chuckles and shakes his head* Yeah. YOU have the magical cure-all to our society's health problems, and that cure-all is running and counting calories. Please. Get off your pedestal. The reason people don't give a fuck about how you think is because people like you are idiots. Simple solutions to insanely complex problems are not solutions. You speak like someone who spends their entire time running and obsessing over their calories as opposed to studying how the world works and what lands individuals into certain circumstances of their existences. In other words, if I want opinions on how to run a marathon, I'll come to you. If I want information on how to deal with the rising costs of medical care and coverage and health issues in this country, I'll speak to one of the rest of these guys in this thread.
