Political Quotes

“an issue outside of Medicare but one that has been in the news, one that deserves more attention, is an issue that is changing a little bit, like the demographics I just went to, in an unprecedented way. That is childhood obesity. This is flipping from Medicare, where we are talking about seniors, all the way to the other end of the spectrum as we look at an epidemic occurring in children that we have never seen before. It is a medical issue. It is an issue I first became aware of as a physician, but it has gotten worse. Many of us saw the release by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from this past weekend which led me to want to restate the importance of addressing this issue. Historically childhood obesity was thought of in moral terms, there was an unfair stigma to obesity. But what we have become aware of in medical science only recently, and that is childhood obesity is a serious condition that has implications not just to the child as a child or as an adolescent but has grave lifelong complications.”