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Do you think insurance companies would ever get to the point where obese people are required to have weight loss surgery or be dropped from their health insurance policies?

Asked by jca (36062points) December 7th, 2010

I know the FDA has just recently reduced the minimum weight required to have weight loss surgery. People that I know that have had multiple health problems (diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. or joint problems like knee and hip replacements) have had these problems either disappear or be greatly minimized after weight loss surgery. This is beneficial for insurance companies, as patients with less health problems would be less of a liability.

Do you think that the increased proven successes of weight loss surgery would make insurance companies force people to have the operation or else be threatened with losing their health insurance?

Excluded from this would obviously be people who would be at a greater risk from the surgery, i.e. people who would not survive the surgery for whatever reason.

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