Some sense in health care policy
Posted in Politics on December 9th, 2004 by Aren Cambre – Be the first to commentI am pleased that the City of Dallas is cutting costs by dropping employee coverage for bariatric surgery. The operation alone can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
There is an easier, far less expensive solution that works for the vast majority of fat people: take control over your lifestyle, stop porking out, and get physical activity. Painfully simple.
I was also pleased to see that benefits for smoking-related problems are next on the cutting block.
This is a great, commonsense message: you control your self-destructive behaviors first. Then we can talk about other treatments.
The HOV system would have been a single, counterflow HOV lane. Now it’s going to be like the