Quote From: karenmeyerIt is great that a diet program worked for you !!!
I have been referred for surgery several times, but my insurance won't cover this surgery unless I have been in doctor supervised program for 12 months. this would be fine ... but guess what ? the insurance will not cover this doctor supervised program. I don't reallly understand why insurance would pay for infertility treatment, but make it so diffucult to receive benfits for obesity. all the studies say that losing weight decreases your risk for heart disease (expensive for insurance), diabetes (expensive for insurance), and other conditions that cost insurance companies big money !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! does anyone else see the irony in this ?
I am trying to eat healthier (fresh fruit and veggies have almost doubled my grocery bill and healthy proteins are WAY more expensive than those with high fat) and I walk 1.5 miles to and from work every day. Of course this is not doctor supervised so I am on my own ........again
Anyway, As i said before, I am glad that one diet plan worked for you, I believe you are in the minority .... Also, overeating is not like alcoholism .... you must eat to live.
Federal law now requires all insurance companies to cover infertility treatment, although they aren't required to cover the cost of the medicines (which is the really expensive part!). The reason they started covering the costs of infertility treatment around the year 2000 was becasue they were covering things like VIAGRA and other pleasure-drugs (for men). The pressure was on them to cover infertility, which is a legitimate medical problem as well. Heck, they cover the costs of killing babies, so they should cover the making of babies!!!
Yes, insurance companies are STUPID. They would save more by covering PREVENTIVE procedures and medications than by waiting around and covering all the problems CAUSED BY OBESITY!
And, yes, we must eat to live, but we have the CHOICE to decide what we put in our bodies and if we make our bodies walk/run, et.c!
