Obesity Illness

Just imagine it happening.

"My kids have asthma, my wife is diabetic, and I have obesity illness."

This will now be the norm. According to this report, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will change the classification of obesity in the Medicare manual. The change, announced yesterday, will allow obesity to be considered an illness. Oddly, I must have been inside at the time because I missed hearing America's trial lawyers collectively lick their chops.

I suspect that soon the PC crowd will latch on to this change and take action to get words such as 'fatso' and 'blimpie' labeled as hate speech.