Bariatric surgery may help teens, but insurers often exclude them

Just as they should exclude adults.

As obesity among young people continues to rise, a growing number of clinicians and researchers say that weight-loss surgery may be their best chance to take off significant weight and either correct or avoid such conditions as diabetes and heart disease, which often go hand-in-hand with obesity. But although health plans frequently cover bariatric surgery in adults, coverage for the procedure in patients younger than age 18 is spotty.

Experts in pediatric obesity say that caution is warranted and that insurers shouldn’t just rubber-stamp such surgery in adolescents. But they say emerging research may lead to more coverage for young people.

Let's hope not.

We will just end-up paying more for these piglets will diseases of choice given to them by their child-abusing folks.