Insurance for the Obese? NO

By ACSH Staff — Jul 26, 2004
Those Americans who crave being taken care of by the government will be comforted by the latest from Medicare: Obesity is no longer banned from the list of illnesses covered by our national health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. The "disease-ification" of America continues its march... Click here to read the rest of Dr. Gilbert Ross's counterpoint column from the Daily News.

Those Americans who crave being taken care of by the government will be comforted by the latest from Medicare: Obesity is no longer banned from the list of illnesses covered by our national health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. The "disease-ification" of America continues its march...

Click here to read the rest of Dr. Gilbert Ross's counterpoint column from the Daily News.

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