Richard Fernandez has some thoughts on the intersection of Obamacare and community organizing (cf. Nat Hentoff’s remarks):

The health care reform bill approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) would provide federal grants to state and local governments and a “national network of community-based organizations” to “promote healthy living and reduce disparities” and to monitor people’s weight, eating, exercise habits and other individual behaviors that affect health at the community level. The language instituting the program, entitled “Community Transformation Grants,” is on pages 382-387 of the bill as posted on the committee’s Web site…

TYPES OF MEASURES. — In carrying out subparagraph (A), the eligible entity shall,with respect to residents in the community, measure —
(i) decreases in weight;
(ii) increases in proper nutrition;
(iii) increases in physical activity;
(iv) decreases in tobacco use prevalence;

As Trotsky said: “The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training…Man will make it his goal…to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will.”

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