Obese patients in line for stomach reduction surgery are upset about being weighed-in like horses at the local race track.  

So what is wrong with using the best available equipment?  And should these horse scales be embarrassing and hurtful to those "suffering" from obesity?  

Graco staged a small protest on Tuesday outside the state legislative assembly and met some legislators to try to oblige hospitals to buy stronger equipment, including stretchers and wheelchairs for the obese, and to authorize more hospitals to perform stomach stapling surgeries.

This is reality folks.  Let's face it, if you're fat...you're fat.  You have a problem and it's growing at an alarming rate.  

From 2000 to 2005, Sturm found, the U.S. obesity rate increased by 24%. But the rate of severe obesity increased even faster. The number of people with a BMI over 40 grew by 50% -- twice as fast. The number of people with a BMI over 50 grew 75% -- three times as fast.

Unfortunately, your problem is our burden.  As hospitals are forced into purchasing larger-than-life sized equipment to accommodate such obesity, the rest of us pay for it with larger-than-life sized medical bills.