Health and Money Issues Arise Over Who Pays for Weight Loss
Article Abstract:
Medicare's advisers will meet to discuss whether paying for weight loss surgery for the obese is fiscally worthwhile: it seems that it would be from a preventative medicine perspective, but the answers are complicated and unclear.
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2004
Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government domestic functions, Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Care and treatment, Economic aspects, Laws, regulations and rules, Medicare, Health policy, Gastric bypass
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2004
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Some Extra Heft May Be Helpful, New Study Says
Article Abstract:
Researchers have found that people are overweight but not obese have a lower risk of death than thin, normal-weight and ob ese people.
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2005
Science & research, Health aspects, Research, Overweight persons, Longevity
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2005
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Subjects list: United States, Obesity
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