BMI is Basis for Health Bill’s Definition of Chronically Overweight
16 April 2010
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Bill relies on BMI to define chronic overweight condition.
The health care bill as passed defines in section 2703 [warning: loads slowly] that being overweight is a chronic condition. The condition is defined in the bill as having a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 25.
Match that with Health.com’s estimates of different celebrities’ BMI and you have the following list of people who have this chronic condition.
| Name | Height | Weight | BMI |
| Brad Pitt |
5′11½ | 203 | 28. 3 |
| Tom Cruise | 5′7″ | 166 | 26 |
| Tony Romo | 6′2″ | 224 | 28.8 |
| Will Smith |
6′2″ | 210 | 27 |
| George Clooney | 5′11″ | 211 | 29.4 |
| Sylvester Stallone |
5′10″ | 228 | 32.7 |
| George Clooney (5′11″, 211 pounds, BMI 29.4 |
This gets worse (generally speaking) the taller the individual. I’m 6′5″, and while no one would ever say I was overweight by looking at me, at 218 pounds I am over the BMI 25 number. I was actually told by a fitness instructor that I should be around 235, so actually I am underweight (at least according to those dang private sector experts…) But what do they know? There is a LAW that now says that I am chronically overweight! With two numbers (height and weight), they can discount all those other pesky criteria, such as body type (small, medium, large), muscle weight as opposed to fat weight, and actual health of the individual.
As Albert Einstein said: “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” In other words, keep things as simple as possible, but not simpler. The Dems have made it simpler than possible.
Great quote from Einstein. You are correct, they have oversimplified this to the point of inaccuracy.
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