Why Obese Mothers are Good for the Economy

Obese Mothers are Good for the Economy

                                                                        

Growing Obesity Increases Perils of Childbearing

With Doctors and hospitals starving to make ends (Medical profits are at an all time high.)  meet in this tough economy the more challenging pregnancies faced by fat women and their is a ray of sunshine to the starving medical industry. It's simple economics. When medical care is more complicated and more specialists need to be brought is on a case costs go up... WAY up and so do profits!

Here is an excerpt from an article that appeared  the NY Times  that explains the good news for our struggling health care industry. Click here to read the entire article.

As Americans have grown fatter over the last generation, inviting more heart disease,diabetes and premature deaths, all that extra weight has also become a burden in the maternity ward, where babies take their first breath of life.  

About one in five women are obese when they become pregnant, meaning they have abody mass index of at least 30, as would a 5-foot-5 woman weighing 180 pounds, according to researchers with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And medical evidence suggests that obesity might be contributing to record-high rates of Caesarean sections and leading to more birth defects and deaths for mothers and babies. 

Hospitals, especially in poor neighborhoods, have been forced to adjust. They are buying longer surgical instruments, more sophisticated fetal testing machines and bigger beds. They are holding sensitivity training for staff members and counseling women about losing weight, or even having bariatric surgery, before they become pregnant.

At Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, where 38 percent of women giving birth are obese, Patricia Garcia had to be admitted after she had a stroke, part of a constellation of illnesses related to her weight, including diabetes and weak kidneys.

 Is it possible to be too fat? 

If you are an OBGYN the answer is a resounding NO! Here are the impressive numbers on C-sections alone that clearly show that the fatter a pregnant woman is the more revenue the health care industry can make.

Body Mass Index   vs   Percentage of Caesarian Births    

       20 - 25                    11%        

       25 - 30                    18%                

       30 - 35                    25%              

     35 - 40                    33%                  

     Over 40           43%                     

Very obese women, or those with a B.M.I. of 35 or higher, are three to four times as likely to deliver their first baby by Caesarean section as first-time mothers of normal weight, according to a study by the Consortium on Safe Labor of the National Institutes of Health

There you have it fellow fatlings; another example of how obesity is good for the economy. I, Fat Bastardo only wish that fat haters Mrs Obama and Ms MeME Roth would see that. AND once again, GLUTTONY IS GOOD!

Fat Bastado's Op Ed 

We little piggies are a market.
We little piggies stay home.
We little piggies need insulin
You little thinlings need none.
And the greedy gluttonous medical corporatists and doctors go OINK OINK OINK all the way to the bank!

Now do you see how gluttony is good for the economy? Right now 20% of the US GDP is health care and we fatlings are responsible for a huge slice of that. If that thinling Obama had not gotten in and "fixed" health care it would be 25% of our GDP. The medical industry relies on our gluttony and we falings rely on them. If we got thin it would be a disaster for the medical industry.

What would happen to companies like Liberty Medical and the Scooter Store if the American Obesity Epidemic were to slow or Belly God forbid actually reverse? You fitness nuts are being very shortsighted. GLUTTONY IS GOOD!

Fat Bastado Answers the Critics

Gunner said... Schweine! Widerlich! Schießen Sie sie! 

Fat Bastardo oinked back: Lighten up there Hitler, we don't shoot fat girls in the USA. We harpoon them with our bratwursts and fill them like a cream puff with our man cream.

Henri said... Femmes obèses américains sont vulgaires et grossiers. Les femmes de la France ont un parfum délicieux.


Fat Bastardo oinked back: Hey Frenchie, if you frogs can eat snails surely you would not mind the fat girl musk and licking her yeasty maw. Our fat girls maybe fat and a bit funky smelling but most of the shave their arm pits once in a while. 

I Fat Bastard boned a couple of skinny French women and I do admit that they smelled and tasted great.

V2 Rocket said... IMO, pregnant women who pig out, drink, smoke and drug are worse than rapists. IMO Rapist should lose their balls and pig dog women should lose their ovaries.

Fat Bastardo oinked back: It would seem that many people feel that way V2. You are new here so I will fill you in. My blog partner Proud FA had a long career of porking fat girls but now he is engaged to a skinny woman who we call Thinnette. Proud wants to have kids and he reasons that fat girls are not healthy enough to produce healthy kids so he plans to sire his kids with Thinnete.

Joe Feeds said... If the US is not careful Europe will surpass them in feederism. Our Obesity levels are growing slower that theirs. I blame Obama.

Fat Bastardo oinked back: Joe, I don't blame Obama. I think it is simply peaking. Not everyone wants to be fat and besides we need thinlings. It would be tough surviving without them. That is the downside to childhood gluttony. We need these kids to serve us fatlings.

The Truth About Medical Malpractice Insurance: It Ain't The Lawyers!

You've often heard that one reason health care costs are skyrocketing in this country is because doctors pay so much for medical malpractice. Your medical bill is huge because we doctors have to give half our income to an insurance company to pay off all of those frivolous law suits.

But what if I told you that your health insurance probably costs more than your doctor's malpractice insurance? I'm serious. How do I know? Well, to start with, I'm a doctor who pays for his own medical malpractice insurance, and this is my bill. That's right -- $3,549 is the total I'm paying for my malpractice insurance for all of 2013! I bet some of you pay more than that for your car insurance.


Am I unique among doctors in how little I pay for medical malpractice? Not really, but before we discuss what other doctors pay, I'd like to discuss national trends for medical malpractice. Believe it or not, the cost of medical malpractice has been dropping, nationally, for about a decade. That's right: dropping!

In 2003 there were nearly 17,000 paid medical malpractice claims in the U.S. totaling nearly $4.5 billion (pages 9-10). By 2011, the number of paid claims had dropped below 10,000 and the total amount paid was less than $3.2 billion. That's a 40 percent drop in the number of paid claims and a 29 percent drop in the total amount paid.

What about hospitals? Surely hospitals are still getting killed by law suits, right? Well no. In a study of the financial records for 387 California hospitals, the average that hospitals paid for malpractice in 2003 was just over one percent of their total income (figure 10). Not much, but by 2011 that had dropped to just over six tenths of a percent (0.6 percent) of their income which was less than one penny for every dollar they brought in. Again, that's nearly a 40 percent drop.

My own malpractice insurance reflected this trend. In 2003 I paid over $8,000 for medical malpractice but, by 2012, it had dropped to just under $3,000 before rising slightly to just over $3,500 this year. Now, not all malpractice rates in the US are as low as they are in California. In fact, if you're a doctor in New York or

Pennsylvania, you might have already punched your computer screen more than once by now.
Although medical malpractice rates have dropped considerably in the U.S., not every State has felt the love evenly. In 2010, for example, six states accounted for over half of all the money spent in medical malpractice law suits, and one fifth of all the money spent on medical malpractice was spent on suits in New York alone, a state with only about one-sixteenth of the U.S. population.

Even so, if the cost of medical malpractice is falling nationally, how can it contribute to rising health care costs? One reason that's often given is the cost of defensive medicine: we doctors are so terrified of being sued that we often order many unnecessary tests on our patients just to avoid these law suits.

Okay, I admit I don't want to be sued either and it's hard to quantify how many tests I, or any other doctor, might order out of fear alone. But I can tell you that when I order an expensive test like a CT scan, I normally have to contact my patient's insurance company to explain why I want the test or they won't pay for it. I'm not the only doctor who has to do that, so knee jerk defensive medicine isn't as easy as you might think.

Also, if the cost of malpractice is going down because fewer doctors are being sued each year, why would the cost of defensive medicine be increasing? Am I the only doctor who's looked at his malpractice bill lately? Speaking of other doctors, last year I took the opportunity to survey many of the other doctors who practice near me by asking them how much they paid for their medical malpractice insurance.
In my admittedly informal survey, I found that other internists and family practitioners pay about what I pay.


A cardiologist who does angioplasties pays about $5,500 a year. An ophthalmologist might pay $7,000 a year; emergency room doctors pay about $12,000 a year; anesthesiology: $14,000; general surgery: $18,000; and orthopedic surgery: $20,000 a year.

For comparison, my family's health insurance (for a family of four that has no medical problems) costs just over $20,300 this year. So my family's health insurance cost almost six times what my medical malpractice insurance costs me, and slightly more than what an orthopedic surgeon in California pays for his malpractice insurance.

For a long time we've been in the middle of a great national debate on controlling our crippling health care costs. The next time a hospital, an insurance company or a politician says we can't control these costs because malpractice is so expensive, why don't you ask them if maybe they'd like to show you the real numbers and start looking at the real problem. Because now you know: it ain't the lawyers.

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ObamaCare Government Shutdown: Follow the Money

Nothing criminals do is ever illogical. You may be wondering why the criminals in Congress shut down the government over Obama Care a.k.a. the affordable health care act. You may think it has something to do with their warped ideology. You may think that their warped ideology is stronger than their love for America and Americans and while that may be true the real reason for the government shutdown and a maniacal desire to repeal the affordable health care act boils down to the lowest common denominator, money.

In the United States one third of what is spent on healthcare goes to cover waste/fraud. With the government regulating healthcare medical fraud will become a federal crime. What that means for the people running corporations is that when they steal from the American people not only will they have to pay the money back but some of them may actually face jail time. To put into perspective how huge the medical fraud in this country is considered our military budget. More money is stolen by doctors and hospitals each year and we spend on our entire military. To put that into perspective, consider the fact that United States spends more on its military than all other countries combined.

Another feature of the affordable care act/Obama care is that there is a threshold on how much overhead/theft insurance companies can have. The insurance companies are all that worried about that because with Obama care more people will be buying health insurance. The problem is that premiums will be going down due to the forced competition. That means that every American that more disposable income. Having more disposable income will be an economic stimulus. An economic stimulus creates jobs. More jobs means a smaller labor pool. Smaller labor pool means better pay from workers. Better pay for workers needs more upward mobility. More upward mobility means more political and economic power for Americans. More political and economic power for Americans is a huge threat to the criminal elite corporations who own most of our government.

Shutting down the government will create a huge economic slowdown. Many government workers through no fault of their own will lose their jobs or be furloughed. This is a huge chunk of money that will not be going into the economy. This will hurt Mainstreet and I Mainstreet I mean everyone from the barber, the grocer, the auto mechanic, the forest ranger, the plumber and everyone else depends on consumer dollars to keep him in business. The ripple effect of what Republicans in Congress have done will be arguably is devastating to the economy as what the criminal Wall Street bankers did when they crashed the economy.

TIP OF THE ICEBERG!

No other industry in the history of the world has been as wealthy, corrupt and dangerous as American medical industry. Consider the fact that healthcare represents nearly 20% of America's gross domestic product. No other country even comes close. Consider the fact that the World Health Organization has ranked American healthcare 38th for quality and safety. Consider the fact that the last major disease cured or eradicated was polio.

When you don't know why something that seems illogical and absurd, simply follow the money.

FACT TIME!

Medical Schools Are Run By Corporate Criminals!

 

When your doctor cries poor mouth tell them to shut his greedy lying mouth!

Now do you see why the corporate Rethuglicans don't want the scrutiny that Obamacare aka the health care law will bring? Criminals hate the law.

Why US Health Care Sucks

The Truth About Health Care In America 


The criminal corporate thugs who run the American health care system would like you to believe that the reason health care is so expensive in the United States is because it is your fault. Criminals who run the American health care system are the same criminals who run the health insurance companies, drug companies, medical device companies, labs and hospitals.

It is not your fault that Americans pay three times the world average for health care. The American health care system is run by vile contemptible treasonous criminal corporatists.

Breast Implant Surgery Gone Wrong?!

Obesity in the short term does cost the health care system more but in the long term because fat people die sooner obesity actually costs the health care system less. This is an example of criminals doing that what criminals do best and that is blame the victim.

Don't believe their lies!

The Truth About Health Care