Roast duck with Mango salsa

Nothing for me, I don’t have much of an appetite.

Yeah, big boo-boo sleeping with George. I kind of lost a lot of respect for both of them. He should have known she just needed the comfort love, and she should have not been so easy. Regardless, still the best show on TV right now. We will see what this week brings.

Ok, I pay taxes like everyone else. Even though the Federal government doesn’t take much out of my paycheck, I pay Social Security and since I live paycheck to pay check for the most part, a full 9.5% of my pay goes the way of the Dodo due to sales taxes. Not to mention property taxes. So imagine my disgust when I heard that Medicare was going to start paying for its subscribers to get Gastric Bypass, on the program, for free.

The last time I checked, there was only one thing that caused someone to be in the position to need gastric bypass surgery… over eating. We are a nation that lives in abundance. Most Americans have never known hunger, much less starvation.

We are a society of gluttons which is why we are the most obese society on the planet. So instead of spending the money on activities that would possibly prevent the situation that might cause the need for surgery anyway, which everyone could enjoy, we are just going to spend tax dollars to unfatten them with no effort on there part. What a crock of shit.

On average gastric bypass costs around $20,000 per case. There are 6.2 million people enrolled in Medicare. If they same percentage of those are morbidly obese as the general population, then 291,400 enrollees are morbidly obese. This, of course, is a low estimate as Medicare covers the disabled. Regardless, if all of those 291,400 people have the bypass surgery, it would cost the government, that is us taxpayers, $5,828,000,000. That is nearly 6 billion dollars. I would rather see that money go to recreational funding and Social Security. Wouldn’t you?