Your link is to a piece titled “Obese Girl Denied Weight Loss Surgery.”
If this is the same story I read the other day, this young girl’s obesity was caused by either the tumor or the durgery and the surgery she needs is not a gastric bypass to stop her from eating, but a surgery necessary to cure a rare side effect occurring from the tumor she had removed. I can’t remember if her obesity was life threatening, but I do remember that the insurance company was reinvestigating the case and might go ahead and grant payment for the surgery after all.
That is the correct link.