Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Overweight bureaucracies
[Edward Hudgins, "Obese Medicare and Fatheaded Politicians," The Objectivist Center, 18 July 2004.]
Obesity was recently reclassified under Medicare as a "disease." As Objectivist Center Senior Fellow Edward Hudgins explains, the real problem in the U.S. is the expanding waistlines of government agencies:
Obesity and poor health habits are certainly problems in this country. But the solution lies in true personal responsibility, a sense that one's life is so important and of such value that one would commit moral treason to one's self by allowing one's body to fall into disrepair.
A greater threat to the health of our country is the obese size of government, with Medicare the overweight poster child that illustrates the danger to the heart of our liberties. Our biggest problem is not with fat in our waistlines but, rather, in the heads of politicians who want to micromanage our lives. The lesson of HHS's classification of obesity as a "disease" is that the government should go on a diet, shedding hundreds of billions in needless spending, starting with the entire Medicare program.
[Edward Hudgins, "Obese Medicare and Fatheaded Politicians," The Objectivist Center, 18 July 2004.]
Obesity was recently reclassified under Medicare as a "disease." As Objectivist Center Senior Fellow Edward Hudgins explains, the real problem in the U.S. is the expanding waistlines of government agencies:
Obesity and poor health habits are certainly problems in this country. But the solution lies in true personal responsibility, a sense that one's life is so important and of such value that one would commit moral treason to one's self by allowing one's body to fall into disrepair.
A greater threat to the health of our country is the obese size of government, with Medicare the overweight poster child that illustrates the danger to the heart of our liberties. Our biggest problem is not with fat in our waistlines but, rather, in the heads of politicians who want to micromanage our lives. The lesson of HHS's classification of obesity as a "disease" is that the government should go on a diet, shedding hundreds of billions in needless spending, starting with the entire Medicare program.
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