That weight discrimination already happens here in the states, but not on a large scale; no pun intended.
Slavitt has promised that between now and January 20 he will impose massive new regulations on the Health Care sector.
Who is Slavitt? The single person who controls more of the US economy and American people than anyone else right now. He is the rule maker in CMS over Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, hospital and doctor regulation and most importantly ... the re-distribution of the healthcare dollar.
Regulations already imposed in August switch the payment system from Fee For Service (A provider gets paid for service perfoRmed) to VBP. Under VBP the provider is rewarded for choosing patients who have healthy lifestyles and the provider is penalized for providing service to patients with unhealthy lifestyles.
Of course, providers with unhealthy lifestyles are Democrats. So then additional regulations will turn VBP into rube=goldberg complexity of counter-balancing interests in equality of distribution.
That weight discrimination already happens here in the states, but not on a large scale; no pun intended.
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It’s a huge problem.
The doctors do not want to do ELECTIVE operations on obese people because anesthesia and the operation itself is a lot more dangerous and touchy to get right. They don’t want a high risk patient to die for something that isn’t critical. I am sure they don’t want their surgery stats to go down unnecessarily, but almost none of them got into surgery to be indifferent if their surgical patients live or die.
The INSURANCE COMPANIES however and HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS may have financial reasons behind why they don’t want to see this occur.
The doctors primarily don’t want to have someone die for something that can be postponed so they can get a better chance of successfully surviving the operation.