Doctors Fight Labeling Obesity a Disability

Right conclusion, wrong reason.

"But should obesity be considered a disability? On Tuesday the American Medical Association voted a resounding no at its annual meeting.

But in a country where nearly one in three people is obese but where laws do not always cover size discrimination, and many health insurance policies do not cover obesity treatments until a patient develops a more serious health condition -- not all who deal with obesity agree on the matter.

'We believe that we passed this for the patient's benefit,' said Dr. Domenic Federico, an AMA delegate from Michigan. 'We do not want to have this limit the ability to have doctors talk about a very serious condition.'"

This is a CYA situation.

Docs are covering their butts since the advice they offer keeps and makes fat people even fatter. (see here, here, here, here and here)

If overweight/obesity were considered disabilities, docs are afraid that they would be accused of making people disabled.

They would rather stick with what they already know - how to make overweight/obese people sicker and dead.