Seriously, only absolutely paranoid Obama haters could construe this:
(c) contains a list of national priorities on health promotion and disease prevention to address lifestyle behavior modification (including smoking cessation, proper nutrition, appropriate exercise, mental health, behavioral health, substance-use disorder, and domestic violence screenings) and the prevention measures for the five leading disease killers in the United States;
as some kind of tell that there is a forthcoming storm of soldiers knocking at your door to check if you're smoking or drinking and what you're eating.
Considering that "behavior modification" is what has people foaming at the mouth here, I see you have a good point -- they're actually going to make a LIST of things that would make Americans healthier like exercise and eating well and not beating your wife and not abusing drugs, and they're going to put it an annual report to Congress. Whoa -- a list in a yearly report. Board up your houses and get your guns ready, guys, this one is for real! This is the one where our rights start to get trampled, when people make lists of healthy things and present them to Congress. I knew it was going to happen!
Yikes -- a very, very threatening list that just stinks of a socialist takeover and random government checks and enforcement on my eating habits.
Get a grip, people. This is why nobody takes the threads that actually might have some merit seriously, because a reaction to something like this just shows that this is not about actual concerns...but about weird paranoia that's not at all based in reality about Obama and his plans for the country.
It would border on comedy if it weren't so sad.
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