jmcquown wrote:


What bugged me the most was these same people had no problem with our
insurance covering gastric bypass surgery for a number of people who really
didn't need it.

At $40,000 USD a pop, with 8 people having had the surgery in a single year,
just imagine the insurance premium increases for everyone else. Oh, I
didn't have to imagine in, I lived it in 2003.

Only 2 people I worked with followed the doctors orders and the surgery was
very successful for them. And they weren't overeaters (nor unhealthy
eaters) to begin with. They'd had a predisposition to being overwheight
since childhood and problems with blood pressure, knee joint issues, etc.
That's who it's for. More power to them!

I can't IMAGINE having any "elective" surgery at all - let
alone anything so invasive and yes, life-threatening! I put
off simple (nowadays) cataract surgery as long as I could,
and that is "elective" only in the sense that you CAN opt
for blindness instead, but who would do so voluntarily?