Health nazis

I'm a believer in good health. That said, I can't believe that the Cleveland Clinic has a policy that they won't hire smokers, and that the CEO of that organization would want to have a policy of not hiring obese people! This is discrimination, pure and simple. People who are addicted to cigarettes need help, and not being able to get employment is probably not helpful. These kinds of tactics remind me of the wellness programs promoted by the insurance companies, designed purportedly with a concern of reducing health care costs. Their real intention is not prevention, since that is not what the health care industry is set up to promote. What they want to do is convince us that we are to blame for the health care crisis, not the gargantuan insurance industry with their extremely wasteful administrative costs and bloated profits.

It should also be noted that Obama is promoting this Clinic as a positive trend in reducing costs.