But it won’t end there. BMI is part of someone’s personal, confidential, and PERMANENT medical history. What else is in YOUR medical history that you don’t necessarily care to share with some snoopy federal government analyst? Because they WILL try to get that too, if they can pass this bill to get your children’s height and weight.

These requests are always cloaked in a message about how much good it will do for the government to “help” you.

Thanks but no.

Ok, so what BMI index standards will they be using?

There are enough eating disorders out there as it is and enough body image issues.

Will the State be taking away children if the child doesn’t meet the said State criteria?

There’s something really perverse going on with a grown man wanting to control a child’s growth patterns.

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His district is only D+4, and it’s a rural district – this kind of nonsense *will not* play there.

Perhaps Ron Kind will be touting a new theme – that he’ll promote a “No Fatties Left Behind” act, where doctors will have their medicare reimbursements garnished if their patients don’t achieve certain metabolic and weight goals.

I am one voter in Kind’s district that can’t wait to defeat him. I want everyone in western Wisconsin to help elect Dan Kapanke.

Hey Ron the only thing that’s bloated is the size of government! Try getting that in shape before you go after my daughter for eating a happy meal.

In November let’s put another one of Nancy Pelosi’s lap dogs back on the porch!

And all of this will help the government govern how???

This is less about governance than it is about control. The Democrat party elite belileve that there is no aspect of our lives that doesn’t need to be reported on and controlled by federal tecnocrats and bureaucrats. Creeps like Kind are absolutely convinced that we are incapable of regulating our children and self regulating our own behaviors. The arrogance of this is stunning!

I think information about individuals could be more effectively gathered by the government if at birth, all persons born in the US were implanted with a microchip that contained a CPU, GPS Unit, and a transponder. Every visit to the doctor, hospital, law enforcement agency, SSN, employment data could all be recorded on the chip and transmitted to a central government agency along with your movement data. The government then could track each person in the USA’s movement and behavior. As bio-electronics progress, the chips could be wired to our vital organs and when we get too sick to economically treat, break the law or vote for a party or individuals not favored by the party in power, the government could just turn us off.

All parties not so fitted at birth could be easily retrofitted. Very efficient. Very Progressive.

Ivy League intellectuals, Progressives, and the Democrat Party should live this idea.

I had a look at this bill on Thomas yesterday and it also requires once a year reporting of adults’ BMI stats and suggests that physicians advise clients on weight loss.

The rest of the law is one big giveaway- more grants for bike paths, recreational areas, walkways, etc. More grants for education in schools, school meals, etc.

My favorite is employer paid for memberships at gyms/physical fitness facilities up to $900 per employee. The facilities cannot be member owned (no clubs) and cannot offer among other things, golfing or horseback riding.

There is also a lot of discussion about “food deserts” and from the best I could make of that, they think that everyone should live within a mile of a grocery store. Lordy be, the only time I have ever lived closer than 5 miles from a grocery store was when I was in college. Currently, I the closest chain grocery store to me is 25 minutes away. (Of course, this idea is not feasible from an economics standpoint.) I think it is to keep the consumer from having a chance to drive by a McDonald’s before they get to a grocery store with the idea the consumer will eat healthy food if it is less than a mile away. *rolling eyes*

I didn’t have time to read the section on “Virtual Farmers’ Markets” — I was a little too scared to delve into that one. I wondered if they were going to try to sell local goods online thus taking away any benefit of “picked fresh this morning”.

It’s what liberal/progressive/Dems remind me of. From wind energy (which powered the Pilgrims) to one square of toilet paper (less than a corn cob) to discovering that eating too much can make you fat (did they invent the word diet?), every thing they decide are problems and proposes as solutions are usually things we progessively left behind on the path to better living. Central planning and a command economic system were proven failures, but if fat and smoking and salt and butter are the enemies, we must give it a try with a better batch of people (a better batch of people have to be even more ruthless than the last failed experiment)

They are also like the office manager bitch, in that they have a job with the most precious talent, that is, of controlling the operation without a sense of humor or understanding of what the organization is.

I have a four-year-dol child who is a seriously picky eater, and is small anyway…in their “30th percentile” at the pediatrican’s office, for height. He is a very light and wiry child. With the info that the gov’t wants to collect about him, some nosy bureaucrat couldeasily pick up on that, and accuse me of starving or neglecting him, though he’s rarely sick and growing. The governemnt control goes both ways.

Individual liverty and freeedom are a risk to collectivists. Our unique identities and opinions are anathema to them. Like Hitler’s Aryan race, anything outside their perceived norm is a threat, and must be controlled.

How long until there are gov’t run fat farms, and gulag-style prisons for those who don’t match the accepted metabolic profile!

When my son was a Varsity wrestler he had a 28″ waistline and a 43″ chest. I don’t believe he could have had more than 3% body fat…there was just nothing there but muscle, you couldn’t pinch an 8th of an inch of fat anywhere on him. His BMI classified him as overweight nearing obese

People were somewhat surprise when he decided not to.

. . . without the government labeling you. Sometimes there’s more going on in a kid’s life than just over-eating. The over-eating can be an escape from whatever else is messing with the kid.

Schools there track kids’ weight and send those who are overweight to “fat camps.” Those who are underweight get sent to the “skinny camps.” Of course we already know that parents in that land of evil are de facto banned from raising children at all.

This would have been a detriment to me as I was and still am underweight. I can tell you from personal experience that doctors, lawyers, judges, and everyone else government are ITCHING to send such kids to mental or other hospital-type institutions. Sad to say, lots of people think that is okay.

The goal is to have institutions rather than parents raise children.

While I doubt that bill is going anywhere soon, I do wonder if any states would refuse to accept the grants if it were.

“commandeer your health insurer to report”

Not your health *insurer* but your health care *provider.* This is an important distinction.

From that data it’s easy to detect pregnancies, births, and abortions. How’s that for government respect for privacy?