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SURGERY FOR OBESITY AND RELATED DISEASES
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 715-720Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2014.09.014
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Bariatric surgery; Health reform; Obesity; Insurance
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) attempts to reduce healthcare costs while simultaneously providing the means for more Americans to obtain health insurance. Among other things, the ACA expands preventative care for obesity by mandating screening and counseling. However, it permits the states to determine whether to mandate treatments for inclusion in plans offered on the state-run exchanges. Bariatric surgery is a highly cost-effective treatment for obesity, yet states have taken varying stances on whether to mandate its inclusion. In light of the rising cost of obesity and resulting burden placed on the federal government and the economy, this article advocates a comparable mandatory inclusion of bariatric surgery in all plans offered on state and federally run exchanges. (C) 2015 American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. All rights reserved.
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