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This may seem like a stupid question, but is the goal of getting the medication and and surgery covered by Medicare to inflict these horrors on seniors, or will doing so also expand coverage to both Medicaid and commercial insurances? I’m a disabled person over 60, living in subsidized housing for disabled/elderly- probably everyone in t…
This may seem like a stupid question, but is the goal of getting the medication and and surgery covered by Medicare to inflict these horrors on seniors, or will doing so also expand coverage to both Medicaid and commercial insurances?
I’m a disabled person over 60, living in subsidized housing for disabled/elderly- probably everyone in the building is at least in the lower targeted BMI category(30-34.9),(unless they are sadly underweight from a wasting illness)- plus have the so called metabolic disease, because old age is a very high risk factor for hypertension, T2 diabetes, or cardiovascular disease regardless of weight. But I seriously doubt if the seniors in my building would be on board with fancy new WL meds or WLS.
Their quality of life is likely more important to them than losing weight at this stage.
This is not a stupid question at all. I think that lobbying the government is the first step - it expands coverage to everyone on Medicare, which is in and of itself a large population, but also provides grounds for them to then demand that private insurance companies also cover these dangerous "treatments."