"They're giving seed money to employers"
"On-the-job training; Forget dashing to the gym at lunch. Today, there are extra benefits to working out at work" by Stephen Smith, Globe Staff | January 26, 2009
..... Governor Deval Patrick unveiled a far-reaching campaign to combat obesity this month, much of the attention focused on two potentially contentious measures: forcing fast-food joints to prominently post calorie counts, and ordering schools to issue weight report cards to students.
First of all, WTF job of GOVERNMENT is it to MONITOR WASTE LINES? Are you effin' kidding me? Can't you SMELL the RANK FASCISM? Bad enough they are already inside our pants; now they want to be inside our bodies, too?
When you think about it, this is a way for the ELITES to STARVE the PEOPLE as THEY CONSUME MORE!!!
Otherwise, GET on the FAT-ASS, FAT-CAT POLITICIANS and the LOBBYISTS!! We PAY for THEIR HEALTH CARE, so aren't we entitled?
But the architects of the initiative decided that wasn't enough. So they're giving seed money to employers - including the social service agency where Abbott and Ouellette work - to help workers eat less and exercise more....
Ladies, you LOOK FINE JUST the WAY YOU ARE!!!!!!!
The workplace program reflects government and employers' frustration over twin crises, inseparably intertwined: the nation's exploding tab for healthcare and the expanding waistline of its citizens, a harbinger of heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions....
How about the WAR COSTS to our healthcare, assholes!!!?
And you want to save money on HEALTH CARE?
GET RID of the CORPORATIONS!!!!!! I want now more than ever.
Talk about your TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT!!!!
In fact, studies show that such initiatives are gaining in popularity among employers....
Yeah, I'LL BET!!! I would be too if I was being handed TAXPAYER DOLLARS for it!!!!
An elaborate health initiative introduced in 2003 by the company appears to be making workers and the bottom line more robust....
Yeah, that is what this is REALLY ABOUT: PROFITS!!! Not YOU, stoo-pid citizen!
But things can turn dicey - and, maybe, even illegal - if incentives are tied to actual success in losing weight or lowering blood pressure.
Yeah, it is called DISCRIMINATION, but who is going to stick up for fat people? Hell, THEY won't even defend themselves because the society has made them feel ASHAMED -- after shoveling fast-food at you these many years!
"Creating a culture of wellness is going to be attractive to some employees and very unattractive to others, who view it as, if not coercive, then maybe paternalistic," said Michelle Mello, a Harvard School of Public Health professor and coauthor of a 2008 New England Journal of Medicine report on the legal limits of workplace health campaigns.
"And it raises larger questions about the appropriate role of employers in influencing people's lifestyle: Where are the boundaries between your employment and the rest of your life?"
Answer: They DON'T HAVE a ROLE THERE, fascista!!!
For Cindy Soule, the problem was that the rest of her life - the few hours not spent at work or getting there - left little time to exercise. Which explains why, during one recent lunch hour, Soule was on the flat of her back at her workplace, the Montachusett Opportunity Council, the same regional social service agency where Abbott works.
Unbelievable! They put parents in this position, then punish them!!
She was among seven employees bending and twisting during a pilates class in a conference room, even as a box of chocolates sat on a credenza, beckoning.
Well, it is sort of like the health industry not curing anything anymore. CURED CUSTOMERS are BAD for BIDNESS -- as are THIN EMPLOYEES when there is a STATE SUBSIDY at stake!
"It's not just my friends on the phone saying, 'Oh, we should be doing something more about staying fit now that we're in our 50s,' " said Soule, who works to prevent childhood lead exposure. "That tended to be more emotional support, but it wasn't getting anything done. This is working better than any fitness initiative I've done on my own, because this is built into my work day."
Ladies, YOU LOOK JUST FINE (Globe didn't provide photograph with web version)
The pilates classes - and the weight-loss program that Abbott joined - are the latest offerings from the social service agency, which has partnered with the city of Fitchburg. It all started when Mary Giannetti, director of nutrition and wellness, was seeking state money to help make Fitchburg workers more fit. "I thought, this is something we ought to offer to our own staff, too," she said.
So they did, with as much as $300,000 from the state underwriting the campaign across five years....
As they CUT SERVICES and RAISE YOUR TAXES, folks!!!!
