Are Americans too Fat for Government Health Care?

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As you look around the world at the countries that have socialized medicine you will realize a couple things.

1. They tend to speak a language other than English. Ok, that one was largely a given, but I still don’t understand Canadians half the time so it is worth mentioning.

2. They are typically represented by either a Dictator or a Prime Minister who likes to wear scarves in public – even in the summer.

3. They are much skinnier than we are.

So, do Americans deserve a government health care plan*?

As Americans weigh in on this heavy topic (pun intended), you have to wonder whether we even deserve health care and how we can pay for it. I mean really, everything we do is to the utmost decadence.

We have big cars that have 4-wheel drive when we don’t live near a hill. We have huge televisions so the movie looks like real life so we don’t have to actually participate in real life. And…

Any and all foods can be upsized, biggie sized, and super sized –you can even add a 23 gallons of soda for only .20 cents more.

This decadence comes at a price. Our health.

I think we should go ahead and nationalize health care. But I think we should pay for it by taking the money from each over-the-top food order and putting it towards the endless chain of doctors that we will need to wait on us later in life.

Ordering an extra large vat of fries? That dollar goes straight to the people that make motorized scooters.

Enjoying that swimming pool size chocolate malt? The .50 cents goes to the diabetes foundation.

Think pizza rolls is the best dinner for 5 nights in a row? Just forward that money on to the folks at the late-night emergency ward – you will be seeing them soon enough.

Yea, Americans should be allowed the same benefits as my foreign speaking friends. But, until we eat like them, we are just going to have to pay for it somehow that doesn’t put us out of our preferred eating habits (God forbid we actually tried to be healthier).

*When I originally typed this up, I accidentally wrote, “Do Americans deserve a health care plane.” – I like to travel, and a free government plane sounds great. But, I highly suspect, we are too fat for that as well.

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