Comments on: The Cost of Daylight Savings, No Sitting Allowed, and One Woman Striving to Weigh 1,000 Pounds http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 07:13:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John R. Graham http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55928 John R. Graham Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:29:33 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55928 With respect to the fat lady, the article does not describe her health-insurance status. If her "job" is to sit in front of a webcam eating junk food for Internet subscribers, I guess she's self-employed. Fortunately for her, she's in NJ, where it is illegal for insurers in the individual market to charge actuarially fair premiums. This lady would pay the same premium as everyone else. This will soon be the law throughout the U.S., when insurers can no longer "discriminate" due to pre-existing conditions. Isn't "fairness" great? With respect to the fat lady, the article does not describe her health-insurance status. If her “job” is to sit in front of a webcam eating junk food for Internet subscribers, I guess she’s self-employed. Fortunately for her, she’s in NJ, where it is illegal for insurers in the individual market to charge actuarially fair premiums. This lady would pay the same premium as everyone else. This will soon be the law throughout the U.S., when insurers can no longer “discriminate” due to pre-existing conditions.

Isn’t “fairness” great?

]]> By: Larry C. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55775 Larry C. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:59:44 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55775 Devon, I'm having trouble visualizing this woman in a bikini. I suppose it was a yellow polka dot bikini? And also that it was istsy bitsy, teeny weeny? I think it would just disappear under rolls of fat. No? Devon, I’m having trouble visualizing this woman in a bikini. I suppose it was a yellow polka dot bikini? And also that it was istsy bitsy, teeny weeny? I think it would just disappear under rolls of fat. No?

]]> By: Linda Gorman http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55770 Linda Gorman Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:04:57 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55770 The prohibition against sitting might have something to do with the fact that NHS hospitals have had problems with basic laundry. According to the Times Online, at Mid Staffordshire, conditions were so bad that patients' relatives took soiled sheets home to wash. The prohibition against sitting might have something to do with the fact that NHS hospitals have had problems with basic laundry. According to the Times Online, at Mid Staffordshire, conditions were so bad that patients’ relatives took soiled sheets home to wash.

]]> By: Ken http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55768 Ken Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:54:00 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55768 People paid to watch this woman eat? People paid to watch this woman eat?

]]> By: Brian Williams. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55762 Brian Williams. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:41:33 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55762 The article about Daylight Savings Time has two opposing points of view. One proposal is to abandon DST altogether. The other proposal is to adopt DST all year round. I'm in favor of either proposal. They both have a nearly identical effect, as far as I can tell. The article about Daylight Savings Time has two opposing points of view. One proposal is to abandon DST altogether. The other proposal is to adopt DST all year round.

I’m in favor of either proposal. They both have a nearly identical effect, as far as I can tell.

]]> By: Tom H. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55759 Tom H. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:18:42 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55759 Sounds like British hospitals really are like the DMV. Sounds like British hospitals really are like the DMV.

]]> By: Nancy http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55757 Nancy Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:02:25 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55757 Devon: that information makes the whole story even moe gross. Devon: that information makes the whole story even moe gross.

]]> By: Devon Herrick http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55755 Devon Herrick Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:56:26 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55755 This lady has a web site, where viewers pay to watch her antics – mostly eating while wearing a bikini. I don't believe she actually weighs 600 pounds (I would have guessed 400). I also assume her professed desire to weigh 1,000 is a PR campaign to attract viewers with a morbid curiosity. If she achieves a weight of 1000 pounds, she would likely be disabled, bed-ridden and unable to walk. This lady has a web site, where viewers pay to watch her antics – mostly eating while wearing a bikini. I don’t believe she actually weighs 600 pounds (I would have guessed 400). I also assume her professed desire to weigh 1,000 is a PR campaign to attract viewers with a morbid curiosity. If she achieves a weight of 1000 pounds, she would likely be disabled, bed-ridden and unable to walk.

]]> By: Vicki http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-cost-of-daylight-savings-no-sitting-allowed-and-one-woman-striving-to-weigh-1000-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-55754 Vicki Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:36:43 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=9523#comment-55754 Great photo. But it's also fairly gross. Great photo. But it’s also fairly gross.

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