weight loss diet paperwork from the goverment

Source? I don't get paperwork like that. I work for the government, and if I don't stay within weight standards, I lose my job. Seems like something we should have had years ago.

How much will this extra paperwork cost us, as taxpapers and as patients? And i dont think it should be about "Weight loss" but rather "healthy eating/nutrition and exercise" I think this should also be taught regularily in schools.

The new Obama health care rules have all sorts of issues. I had my annual in November. (wl paperwork was given to me) My doctor told me that in the future when you go in for a physical, she can not talk to me aobut my medications. HELLO!!!! that is the main reason I am there.

The paperwork is just a couple of pages on how to eat right and exercise. No big deal. I'm sure most offices are like mine, take it if you want, leave it if you don't.

Well, paperwork on "eating right and exercising" isn't the same as paperwork on "weight loss". So which is it? I wouldn't have an issue with paperwork on eating right and exercising. It SHOULD go along with a preventive visit since those things prevent a LOT of illness.

I think that doctors should try to reach out to overweight/ out of shape patients in some way, and the paperwork does not seem like it will hurt anything. I have gone to the same doctor for YEARS and was morbidly obese. He never one time said a word to me about my weight, which he knew was killing me.

I suppose this is part of the healthcare reform. I dunno .. basically everyone starts getting clumped under the same rules whether or not they think they need it. Everyone has to follow the rules .. it's a cookie cutter process. Just like we all have to pass a driver's test to get a license. Some will ace the test.. some will barely squeak by and still get their license .. some will fail and have to come back and try again until they do pass.

Filling out more paperwork is a pain in the *kitten* .. and frankly ... as absurd and "big brother" as it sounds .. I think I'm ready to be microchipped and just scan me for crying out loud. LOL :laugh: Get me into a mass system that no matter where I am in the world, if I get sick or in an accident .. any doctor can pull up my info and know if I'm allergic to anything .. what medications I'm on and what procedures/surgeries I may have had in my lifetime. Let my info be easily and readily shared between all doctors and medical professionals. What if I lose my faculties and don't know who I am .. or I'm too old to remember something important about my health?

Ugh.. sometimes the debate of what is private and what isn't just exhausts me .. and I wish there was a cookie cutter system in place that I know what to expect from my doctor(s) and that I don't have to sit around for 2-4 hours in an ER or Urgent Care facility, waiting for someone to take a look at my son running a fever of 104 and vomiting. Or waiting at my doctor's office when I'm 30 minutes early only to sit around for an extra hour and half after my appt time before I'm even escorted to the exam room. What the heck is wrong with our system?

And to be referred and or wait for approval from our insurance to have a procedure done or to be allowed to see a certain specialist ..

oh boy .. I'll stop here ..

So is it just informational? "Paperwork" makes is sound like forms to fill out and reports being made and such. If it is just informational it sounds like a good idea to me unless they are somehow following you home or making you read it on the spot. Are you forced to follow the information?
If you don't want it leave it behind.

I also work for a hospital and have not heard anything about this. Either provide some kind of source or admit you saw it on Facebook.

How much will this extra paperwork cost us, as taxpapers and as patients? And i dont think it should be about "Weight loss" but rather "healthy eating/nutrition and exercise" I think this should also be taught regularily in schools.

so many solutions involve teaching stuff in schools...
When and where do we get to hold parents accountable. I'm a teacher, and I signed on because I love kids and my subject matter....
As a parent I am working at teaching my kids how to eat more healthy and getting them active... I think it's MY responsibility to teach MY kids some things.

Will the paperwork create more jobs? Can we all just get the Samsung Galaxy S III and touch phones to exchange the paperwork? Is it front to back to save on paper? If I hand back the paperwork will I be arrested? If turn in the completed paperwork will Obama give me a personal trainer?

I have questions...:devil:

knowledge is power.

and from the brief conversations i've had with people regarding fitness & health, they don't know up from down.

Several years ago my pediatrician informed me that my son was "overweight"...she had to tell me like 4 times because I just could not believe it - you could count every rib on his body he was so bony and such a stick figure that I would have considered him more likely to be at risk for anorexia...I thought she was crazy and I told her so, she simply let me know that per the regulations he was defined as overweight and my insurance would cover a slew of testing (cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.) and additional support (nutritionist,etc) but as the parent I could refuse treatment...I did refuse treatment, then I looked up the regulations because I was seriously considering getting a more sane doctor for my children.

Turns out she was right, per the regulations any child in the top 15% of the height or weight charts is classified as "overweight" regardless of how proportionate their height and weight are to each other...so because the people in my family are big and grow fast (my mother reached her full adult height in 5th grade) my children are automatically classified as "overweight" or even "obese" if they hit the top 5% of the chart. They are classified in this manner regardless of what their actualy body fat percentage may be just because they are well above average in growth rate.

It just doesn't make sense, but these are the standards the experts have invented...this is apparently the best they can do.

I am a big opponent of the AHA and do not like it at all .. however I have not heard of this and believe it is either
1) Completely made up (most likely)
2) An overzealous Doctor using the AHA as an excuse to push people into services that are not required
3) A misinterpretation of the now 1000's of new regulations that occur from HHS and this new law

It could be the 2nd and 3rd by a Doctor not able to understand the 1000's of new regulations that are now in place ... "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it" Nancy Pelosi on the Affordable Healthcare Act. (aka Obamacare)

I work for a doctor and we have to comply with this. It's called Meaningful Use and basically is as follows:

The concept of meaningful use rested on the '5 pillars' of health outcomes policy priorities, namely:

Improving quality, safety, efficiency, and reducing health disparities
Engage patients and families in their health
Improve care coordination
Improve population and public health
Ensure adequate privacy and security protection for personal health information

I took this from a website as it can explain it's origin better than I could.

The American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA) was enacted on February 17, 2009. ARRA includes many measures to modernize our nation's infrastructure, one of which is the "Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act". The HITECH Act supports the concept of electronic health records - meaningful use [EHR-MU], an effort led by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS ) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). HITECH proposes the meaningful use of interoperable electronic health records throughout the United States health care delivery system as a critical national goal. Meaningful Use is defined by the use of certified EHR technology in a meaningful manner (for example electronic prescribing); ensuring that the certified EHR technology is connected in a manner that provides for the electronic exchange of health information to improve the quality of care; and that in using certified EHR technology the provider must submit to the Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS) information on quality of care and other measures.