British woman banned from entering New Zealand because she is too fat
A British woman planning to start a new life with her husband in New Zealand has been banned from entering the country – because she is too fat.
Rowan Trezise, 33, has been left behind in England while her husband Richie, 35, has already made the move down under leaving her desperately trying to lose weight.
When the couple first tried to gain entry to the country they were told that they were both overweight and were a potential burden on the health care system.
Maybe she should read this to get thin.
It’s a sad fact that fat people and smokers do not burden a health system, because they die much sooner than so called healthy people. Yes, even healthy people die, but instead of dying in their 50s, they die in their 90s after using up decades of health care.
mean, but damn funny
Welcome to socialized medicine!
Ugh, you know you are American when: You think everything socialized is communistic.
“Welcome to New Zealand: No Fat Chicks”
#1, SN
Not quite. Heavy people do cost the health care system much more than normal weight people. In case you haven’t heard, they more often have joint failure, especially knee and foot. They are more prone to early organ failure including cardio-vascular-pulmonary diseases, kidney failure, and diabetes.
Also, because of their less limited mobility, heavy people are more likely to be unable to outrun cannibals, meaning more defensive effort by normal weight people. AND, don’t forget, because of their weight, they require more energy to be personally transported and because of their increased caloric intake, more food transport. Both of these add to atmospheric CO2 and help deplete precious fossil fuel resources.
On the plus side (oh, what a pun), obese babies are much more tender and feed more.
6. “They are more prone to early organ failure including cardio-vascular-pulmonary diseases, kidney failure, and diabetes.”
You’re absolutely correct. Fat people are much more prone to these diseases when they are younger. But that only proves my point.
The entire basis of your argument it that so called “healthy” people never get sick. That’s asinine. Everyone dies, thus, everyone eventually becomes unhealthy. Yes, even skinny people suffer organ failure. Even skinny people suffer kidney failure. But these occur slowly over decades with skinny, so called “healthy” people. Fat people just get really sick, really quickly, and then do us all a favor and die.
Who do you think spends more on healthcare: The fat kid who died of a heart attack at the ripe age of 22 or the 96 year old “healthy” guy who died after fighting cancer for the last twenty of years of his life?
Aside from the fact that its a great movie set, who gives a fuck about New Zealand.
I don’t want my tax money subsidizing this. People should be forced into maintaining a healthy lifestyle to keep costs down.
Fat chicks are like mopeds, they are fun to ride until your friends catch you.
>>This is exact example of why any govt. controlled health system
>>is a great danger to personal freedoms.
Not as great a danger as the denial-of-health-care industry (DOHCI) that currently controls access to medical care in this country. Not to mention the forty-five million Americans who have NO access to health care (I know, I know, the Chimperor in Chief recommends going to the emergency room for routine physicals and cancer treatment, but that’s just about as stupid as he is).
No one’s going to make it in as POTUS unless they’re willing to overhaul the moribund DOHCI this country is afflicted with today.
Way to divert the issue Mustard. He mentions loss of personal freedoms and you talk about insurance.
THE ISLAND IS SINKING…NO FAT PEOPLE….DUH…
#9 Why do you call your homeland communist when the central government was not dissolved for rule by the people?
Try again, I’m not buying.
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>>Way to divert the issue Mustard. He mentions loss of
>>personal freedoms and you talk about insurance.
What personal freedoms would those be, Mikey? The freedom to die because you can’t afford to go to the doctor? The freedom to suffer from a treatable condition because health care is not available to you? The freedom to watch your life (and your family’s life) swirl down the drain of bankruptcy because of an unexpected medical crisis?
I’ll give up those freedoms willingly, thank you very much.
Every civilized nation on earth considers access to basic medical care to be a right, not something to be grudgingly doled out by $135,000,000.00/yr paper shufflers whose bonus check is proportional to how many people they deny medical care to.
Why not get out of Appalachia for a bit, and see how the rest of the world does things?
Good for New Zealand! She’s lucky to now have real motivation to become HEALTHY. (not “so called” healthy, fat people, but HEALTHY)
With all the sheep they are shagging, one would have thought they wouldn’t mind having a pig in there too.
I think he is starting with the freedom to be fat.
By the way I disagree with the poster on this. I think it would be better if the government regulated these things. We already have health care paid for by everyone, just inefficiently. So I’d rather keep the costs down by forcing people to be in better shape, so they don’t use the health care system as much.
The point that health care costs are lower for smokers is valid, so I wouldn’t ban smoking, I would encourage it, especially with all the cigarette taxes that go towards children’s health care and the like. But this doesn’t apply for fat people.
#13 – Way to divert the issue Mustard. He mentions loss of personal freedoms and you talk about insurance.
That’s because Mustard is right and the other guy is wrong.
“Some believe obesity is a personal issue that should not involve the government. However, federal, state and local governments finance the treatment of obesity-related illnesses, and the health costs associated with obesity now exceed the costs of tobacco use.
Obesity costs America $117 billion annually, including $61 billion in direct medical costs for treatment of related diseases, plus $56 billion in indirect costs such as lost productivity.
Health care costs are 36 percent higher and medication costs are 77 percent higher for an obese person compared to an individual at a healthy weight.
If 10 percent of adults began a regular walking program, $5.6 billion in heart disease costs could be saved.
http://www.healthystates.csg.org
Well they better not send her to Australia, I think we are 2nd or 3rd in the obestiy race we don’t need any imports pushing us along.
#11 – rofl -good one.
we could use that rule here in the USA.
as for the whole health care debacle here. *shrug*
its very easy to get medicaid here (basically free healthcare -usually has an *optional* $3 co-pay)
anyone who is poor or handicapped can get easily.
i get it because i’m in wheelchair (spinal injury) works for me.
if they eliminated all the fraud in the system (and there is HUGE fraud going on) they could operate in the black and even insure a few million *middle working class* w/no issues.
-that would piss off all the mega-corps in the medical business though. -which would eventually end up as less
money in some politico’s hole, so you know a clean up will never happen.
-if they (heavens forbid) ever pass free medical for all here
in the states. why cant they just hand everyone a friggin medicaid card and be DONE WITH IT?
-instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, like most plans seem to do.
>>We already have health care paid for by everyone, just inefficiently.
Well, it may be PAID FOR by everyone (more or less), but it’s not AVAILABLE to everyone. To the tune of 45,000,000 Americans who have no health insurance whatsoever. One trip to the ER, and they’re a couple of thousand bucks in debt. And if something REALLY goes wrong with them, they’re fucked. Totally, and up the ass.
>>Health care costs are 36 percent higher and medication costs
>>are 77 percent higher for an obese person compared to an
>>individual at a healthy weight.
I think the original point was that although health care and medication costs may be higher for fatties on an annual basis, they die off a lot sooner than normal weight people, so it’s a wash.
Not that I buy this particular argument, but I believe that’s what it was.
Wait, I noticed that the title of the pic says “Fat crises report” and it should be “Fat crisis report.”
I suppose she could go to Disneyland and ride It’s A Small World.
oh, wait…
J/P=?
27. “Wait, I noticed that the title of the pic says “Fat crises report” and it should be “Fat crisis report.””
Agreed, however, Ed is under some bizarre opinion that it should be pluralized. As if there is somehow more than one fat crisis. I don’t get it either.
Wow… and she’s not even all that fat by American standards.
#30. She is a fatty by Aussie standards and apparently a porker by Kiwi standards. You fella’s need to lower the bar a bit and eat more fruit.
Too bloody right. Im sick of looking at all these fat chicks all over the place. Its just a shame she has to stick around the UK for however long.
#11 right on! Thats pretty funny, I’ll have to remember that one for work tomorrow 🙂